Tag Archives | Millennium Development Goals

Can big data solve the world’s problems, including corruption?

7 November 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Technology

Governments, academics and tech gurus over the last couple of years have been transfixed with the prospect that better and bigger data can help us solve the world’s more entrenched problems – including corruption and poverty. The United Nations has also caught on to this trend and yesterday released a report, compiled by experts, which […]

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MDGs: end corruption to end poverty

19 December 2013 in Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Health, Human rights, Measurement and Research, Poverty and development, Water

International anti-corruption day may have come and gone, but 9 December also offers the chance to look to where else the fight remains to stop the corrupt in their tracks. Nowhere is this more urgent than in the fight against poverty. “To end poverty, you have to end corruption” is a call to action that […]

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Happy birthday Malala! Ensuring education for all

12 July 2013 in Asia Pacific, Education

Today is Malala Yousafzai’s 16th birthday. Since the tender age of 10, Malala has been campaigning for something that many of us often take for granted: the ability to go to school. Her brave activism for universal education and girls’ rights in her native Pakistan was noticed by others who had different ideas. In October […]

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5 ways to meet an anti-corruption Millennium Development Goal

25 March 2013 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, People power, Poverty and development, Young people

This week the United Nations is bringing experts and world leaders to Indonesia to debate development priorities beyond 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals expire. Good governance tops the list of what to add to the current eight targets. We want to make certain that good governance and anti-corruption form part of the promises and […]

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Bringing the fight against corruption to the Millennium Development Goals

29 January 2013 in Anti-corruption movement, Politics and government, Poverty and development

In a few days, an array of world leaders and thinkers – from politicians to Nobel Prize winners- will meet in Liberia to debate the state of the world’s development and where we are going. They have been called together as part of a high level panel put together by the United Nations to set […]

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The UN asks what we think – but will they listen?

15 January 2013 in Climate Change, Education, Human rights, Poverty and development, Water

Flashback to 2000. The United Nations and its member states gathered in New York to embark on a new century that was free from poverty and flush with prosperity. They set out a long list of commitments that they thought would end poverty within 15 years.  Their pledges helped to re-energise efforts to fight poverty […]

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Countdown to the Millennium Development Goals Summit

26 August 2010 in Africa and Middle East, Poverty and development

By Craig Fagan and Jesse Garcia Five years, 127 days, eight hours and 40 minutes. That is the time left until the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved (at least as I type this – https://www.mdgmonitor.org). And in a much smaller amount of time – one month – world leaders will be gathering at […]

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