ICT 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Millennium Development Goals, Information And Communication Technologies For Development, Information System

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Information Communication Technology
• Course: ICT 300
• Professor: David Nemer

Document Summary

Economic, social and political life are increasingly digital, and those without access to. Development will not come with icts only, we should pay attention to other aspects. There"s an urge to develop icts in order to promote wellbeing. Economic improvement of areas defined as poor or in need of economic change to improve human living conditions. This can be international, domestic, local, or transnational. Many development projects and funding are guided by the un"s. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than . 25 a day. The target of reducing extreme poverty rates by half was met five years ahead of the 2015 deadline. The global poverty rate at . 25 a day fell in 2010 to less than half the. However, projections indicate that in 2015 almost one billion people will still be living on less than . 25 per day.