The 5th of August the business creation node Medellin Digital was inaugurated. It will be a specialized unit in the ICT field in the city that will foster new business creation. This program is one action of the Medellin Digital plan to reduce the digital breach, by developing the ICT as a business tool.
The node will help entrepreneurs to strengthen their business based in the use of the ICTs, and develop new services to improve the market in the ICT field.

This report is an indepth survery of the progress towards achieving 'Millennium Development Goals' in Latin American and Carribean countries. It further sheds light over the specific concerns relating to achieving the MDGs in those countries.

Poverty is a condition of hunger, low income and lack of services. It is also a condition of vulnerability, exclusion and powerlessness – the erosion of people’s capability to have their voices heard. Voicelessness is particularly acute for the rural poor, who account for a majority, some three quarters, of the 1.2 billion people living on less than one dollar per day.

Since 1979, Outreach International has been working with the world’s poor to help them build better lives for themselves. Outreach International works with people in communities all over world with a purpose is to help people overcome the effects of poverty and to develop the capacity to create a new future for themselves and their community.

Summary: 'The objective of Denmark's development policy is poverty reduction. The basic premise of the present Strategy is the close correlation that exists between culture and development. Development processes are not solely related to economic and social factors. They are fundamentally a question of human development and thereby equally of history and values, of self-understanding and the processes of social interaction. For this reason culture is a key element in all development cooperation. more...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Kabul University (KU) entered into partnership in late 2005 to establish the Center for Policy and Human Development (CPHD). The first Afghan policy research institution of its kind, CPHD has become the focal point of human development and policy research, teaching, and advocacy in the country.
The CPHD based at Kabul University campus, provided a welcoming institutional home. A modern facility with a Human Development Resource Center accessi more...

'Drawing on evidence of labour conditions in India, the author, Jens Lerche, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, contends that the ILO should broaden its working definition of forced labour to encompass many of large number of modern forms, such as migrant bonded labour, which rely more on economic compulsion than extra-economic coercion and are spread relentlessly by the forces globalization.' The Centre for Development Policy and Research, Viewpoint #8.

The Education Secretary of Medellin answered the citizens’ questions during an online chat,. He was chatting from the Pedro Octavio Amado School. The event was well prepared by the teachers and the director of the school. Everybody enjoyed the excellent facilities offered to chat with the community.
More than 40 people throughout the city participated in the chat. Thanks to the computer courses given in the Open Classrooms, the inhabitants were able to enter the chat and ask questions about more...

The International Center for Peace and Development carries on research in the fields of development, education, employment, peace and security and works in collaboration with other organizations to promote activities that will advance progress toward world peace and prosperity. ICPD was established as a non-profit, non-governmental organization in 1997 to continue the work initiated by the International Commission on Peace and Food (ICPF).

Human rights education is a vital component of Liberia’s post-conflict reconstruction. Without knowledge of such fundamental freedoms, our youth are exposed to repetition of the exploitations and atrocities of the war years. Thus, Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) has been working with its local chapter leaders since 2006 to build consensus and support to teach the nation’s youth their basic human rights and responsibilities contained in the United Nations Universal Declaration of more...