
Cornered! is a blog devoted, most of the time anyway, to telecommunications: local and global issues, technology, people and trends from the perspective of someone who's been reporting, analysing and commenting on the industry since the dark ages (BC - before competition). Sometimes serious, sometimes flippant, sometimes frivolous. Controversial, analytical, informative, amusing, but never boring; a vehicle for examinations of important issues and observations on my encounters and experiences in an industry where polarised views and hyperbole are the norm.
Blog
Technology news and Jobs
Cornered!
UN, Google, Cisco launch Millenium Development Goals website
Cornered!
UN, Google, Cisco launch Millenium Development Goals website | UN, Google, Cisco launch Millenium Development Goals website |
|
| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 05 November 2007 | |
|
Page 1 of 3 The MDGs are framed as a compact, which recognises both the efforts that must be undertaken by developing countries, and the contribution that developed countries can make through trade, development assistance, debt relief, access to essential medicines and technology transfer. The goals are extremely ambitious and to date progress on many of them has been slow. For example, goal one is to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $US1 a day and to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Goal 2 is to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. The BBC reported earlier this year that "war, drought and economic stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa have caused millions of people to become even poorer. Food production has not increased, and shortages have been exacerbated by growing populations." Even the press release announcing the site said: "Although almost eight years have passed since the MDGs were first introduced, today just short of one billion people live on less than one dollar a day, every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday, and in deeply impoverished nations less than half of the children are in primary school and fewer than 20 percent go to secondary school." |
| < Next story in category | Previous story in the category > |
|---|







