Environment

The UN Millennium Development Goals

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/05/2007 - 07:42.

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest.

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UN News: Information technology can be harnessed against climate change, UN meeting told

Submitted by admin on Wed, 28/11/2007 - 09:58.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are largely contributing to climate change but also hold the key to tackling it, several experts and industry figures told a conference today at United Nations headquarters in New York.

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Conference on the Positive Impact of the ICT on the Environment and Climate Change

27/11/2007 - 09:00
28/11/2007 - 17:30

Conference on the Positive Impact of the ICT on the Environment and Climate Change
27-28 November 2007, Conference Room IV
United Nations Headquarters, New York

The event is a collaborative effort of the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID), under the United Nations Department the Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), and AIT Global, a global association of management and information technology professionals.

Location(s)

United Nations Headquarters, Conference Room 4
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY, 10017
United States
See map: Google Maps
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United Nations Millennium Declaration

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/05/2007 - 07:47.

Text of the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, 8 September 2000.

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Information Technology Central To Quest For Development, Dignity, Peace, Secretary-General Tells Global Alliance

Submitted by admin on Tue, 27/02/2007 - 21:30.

Following is the text of the video message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for the opening session of the meeting of the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development, today in Santa Clara, California:

Information and communications technologies have a central role to play in the quest for development, dignity and peace.

The international consensus on this point is clear. We saw it at the 2000 Millennium Summit and at the 2005 World Summit. And we saw it in the two phases of the World Summit on the Information Society.

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