Millenium Development Goals for 2015 - 2 views
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mark ginder on 01 Dec 11Millenium Development Goals Introduction Video
“We need a new way to measure social progress that is independent of economic indicators,”
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http://www.beyond2015.org/sites/default/files/Appendix%201-%20Messaging%20Paper%20Engli... - 0 views
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Look here for key messages from around the world about the four pillars for development goals Beyond 2015.
Tracking future development goals « Post2015.org - what comes after the MDGs? - 1 views
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Looking for after the MDGs
OECD video on busan and MDG progress - short and good - 3 views
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With some two billion people living in poverty, without clean water and sanitation or access to schooling and healthcare, it's clear that development has to work better to improve people's lives. The Forth High-level Forum in Busan aims to make that happen.
Shake the world - MDG activities - 5 views
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Welcome! It is time to Shake the World. How? By joining the global Shake the World movement to support the Millennium Development Goals. These are the eight goals set by the UN in september 2000 to reduce poverty by half by the year 2015. Five years to go, eight goals to achieve, time to shake the world!
Post 2015 | End Poverty 2015 - 3 views
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The United Nations Millennium Campaign, along with many partners within the United Nations as well as Civil Society Stakeholders are now looking at prospects for the Post-2015 agenda. As we look towards the year 2015, we will make make one final push to achieve the MDGs, seriously review the experience had with development goals since 2000 and strive to help create a more inclusive and holistic set of goals post-2015.
Philanthrocapitalists propose a Social Progress Index | Humanosphere - 0 views
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Many, if not most, aid experts today agree that this didn’t work out too well since it was a gross measure, meaning it didn’t really measure what happened to individual people, and because, well, economics is not all there is to life – or measuring life.
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The SPI ranks countries based on three categories – basic human needs; foundations of well-being; opportunity – each of which are broken down further into four categories.
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What are the MDGs? - 0 views
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At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration and pledged to reach the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
Oxfam plea on global inequality - 1 views
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The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest on the planet four times over, Oxfam has said. Ahead of next week's World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the charity urged world leaders to tackle inequality.
UNEP Multimedia - Home - 1 views
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United Nations Environment Programme - lots of digital resources here including videos, animations and podcasts
The hopeful continent: Africa rising | The Economist - 0 views
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Interesting article about Africa's rising economy. Great teacher resource - possible student use (sections?). Thanks Jackson for the tip!
Home - Poverty Over - Christian Aid - 0 views
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Really cool interactive world map that shows evolution of devlopment / poverty over last 200 years. You can view the world, or specific regions.
Millennium Development Goal 4 - Reduce Child Mortality - YouTube - 2 views
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Currently, about 26,000 children under five die each day, mostly frompreventable causes.
Food Force: The First Humanitarian Video Game | WFP | United Nations World Food Program... - 0 views
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Since its release in 2005, WFP's video game to teach children about the logistical challenges of delivering food aid in a major humanitarian crisis has been downloaded over 6 million times, and has an estimated network of 10 million players worldwide!
StatPlanet Map Maker - Interactive Mapping & Visualization Software - 0 views
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StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics. StatPlanet can be freely and easily hosted on your own website. It is lightweight, lightning fast, and makes exploring large data sets easy, fun and highly interactive.
Guardian Data Blog - The 1% - Occupy Movement - 0 views
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Looks at where the wealth is and how the rich are spending even more in "tough times"