Dear Vikas
Thank you for posting this.
Unfortunately, this list has been deactivated some time ago and as you
probably notice, there is not much activity in it. Asian participation in
WSIS online has been through another mailing list hosted by JCA-Net of Japan
(c/o Hamada Tadahisa), over open source software--free of ads! :-) I am
reposting your message to this list (communication@wsisasia.org)
Thanks and best regards
Al Alegre
co-focal point
Asia Pacific NGO Coordinating Comm for WSIS/Asia Pacific CSO Family
----- Original Message -----
From: Vikas Nath <vikas.nath@undp.org>
To: <wsisasia@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:03 AM
Subject: [wsisasia] Invitation: eForum on Achieving the MDGs: A Global
Public GoodsPerspective
Dear Colleagues at WSIS-Asia
I invite your participation in the upcoming discussion forum
"Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): A Global Public
Goods Perspective" to be held on the global public goods Network
( http://www.gpgNet.net ) platform from 3 to 17 November 2003.
The point up for debate is: How could enhancing the provision of
select global public goods facilitate achieving the MDGs at the set
target date? Read the complete background paper at
http://www.gpgnet.net/discussion.php
You may subscribe to the MDGs and Global Public Goods discussion forum
by sending a blank email to: subscribe-gpgnet-mdgs@groups.undp.org
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and targets are based on the
Millennium Declaration adopted by world leaders at the Special Session
of the United Nations General Assembly in 2000. Most of the Goals are
to be achieved by 2015 and are aimed at such objectives as reducing
some of the worst forms of poverty and other types of human
deprivation.
The MDGs are an ambitious initiative. As various studies have pointed
out, a number of countries have a long way to travel in order to reach
the Goals at the set target dates. In fact, it is increasingly
becoming clear that a "business as usual" scenario will not do.
To stimulate the debate on this topic, two background documents are
presented. The first document is: Global Public Goods: A Key To
Achieving The Millennium Development Goal, a paper prepared by the
Office of Development Studies - ODS, UNDP. The second document is the
paper Public Goods and Economic Development by Timothy Besley and
Maitreesh Ghatak. Both these papers along with the background note to
the discussion are available at http://www.gpgnet.net/discussion.php
and will also be circulated to the conference registrants over email.
Please join us for this debate and share with us -and the global
public- your observations on this topic.
Yours sincerely,
Inge Kaul
Director
Office of Development Studies
Vikas Nath
Manager, global public goods Network (gpgNet) Forum
United Nations Development Programme
336 East 45th Street, Uganda House
New York, NY 10017, USA
Email: info@gpgnet.net or vikas.nath@undp.org
URL: http://www.gpgnet.net
gpgNet.net intends to serve researchers, policymakers, business and
civil society as a platform for information exchange and discussion on
issues concerning the theory, policy design and practice of providing
global public goods
3 to 17 November 2003: gpgNet.net Forum on "Achieving the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs): A Global Public Goods Perspective."
Read the complete background paper to the discussion at
http://www.gpgnet.net/discussion.php
To subscribe to the forum, send a blank email to:
subscribe-gpgnet-mdgs@groups.undp.org
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