UN, Google, and Cisco Launch Poverty Monitoring Website

The United Nations, Google and Cisco Systems have launched a website 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 put people's attention on poverty and pull them together. struggle with her.

In September 2000, a group of world leaders adopted eight goals, called the Millennium Development Goals , which deal with such tasks as reducing extreme poverty and hunger, and solving problems such as disease, sexual inequality, illiteracy ...

The MDG Monitor website tracks the achievement of these goals in a variety of categories and in almost every country in the world. The site also provides the most up-to-date data from a variety of sources in areas such as health and education.
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Visitors to the site, for example, can use Google Earth to find places where work is carried out 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 a truly global challenge that requires governments, international organizations, private companies, and civil society to work together,” said Ki-moon in a statement. He noted the help of Google and Cisco in developing GMD Monitor as an example of the “innovative partnership they need.” Google helped with visualization (Google Earth), and Cisco provided technical and financial support.