United Nations Development Programme
The Center for Science, Technology, and Society is partnering with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to extend its reach to the 166 countries that are in the UNDP’s global network. At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders put development at the heart of the global agenda by adopting the Millennium Development Goals, which set clear targets for reducing poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2015. Technology can play a critical role in achieving these goals. The Center partners with the UNDP to use this network to help the UN system and its partners to raise awareness and track progress, while it connects countries to the knowledge and resources needed to achieve these goals.
Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of UNDP | “From politics to security to public health, from crime to the environment, a growing agenda of development issues can no longer be managed within the boundaries of any single nation. Global, regional and national coalitions for action are emerging centered around the United Nations' indispensable role. The UN can bring together governments, civil society, multinational corporations and multilateral organizations - coming together around particular issues of concern and looking for innovative ways to address them.” Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator of UNDP |
