UN, Google, and Cisco Launch Poverty Tracking Site

    The United Nations, Google, and Cisco Systems have launched a site that will track poverty reduction by 2015.

    An online project called MDG Monitor  (Millennium Development Goals, or the Millennium Development Goals) was put forward by the eighth UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring people closer to poverty and bring them together fight with her.

    In September 2000, a group of world leaders adopted eight goals, called the Millennium Development Goals , which address issues such as reducing extreme poverty and hunger, and addressing problems such as disease, gender inequality, illiteracy ...

    The MDG Monitor website tracks the level of achievement of these goals in many categories and in almost every country in the world. The site also provides the most relevant data from a variety of sources in areas such as healthcare and education.

    Visitors to the site, for example, can use Google Earth to find places where work is being done to achieve their goals. A joint statement by the UN, Google and Cisco said that “MDG Monitor allows more than 300 million Google Earth users to better understand development goals and what needs to be done to achieve them.”

    “Achieving goals is truly a global challenge, requiring the collaboration of governments, international organizations, private companies and civil society,” Guy Moon said in a statement. He noted the help of Google and Cisco in developing the GMD Monitor as an example of the "innovative partnership they need." Google helped with the visualization (Google Earth), and Cisco provided technical and financial support.

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