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NEXT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS:
THE CHALLENGE BEFORE THE DIGITAL ERA
15thInfopoverty World Conference
9-10 April 2015, Room 12, United Nations Headquarters, New York
PRESENTATION
The Infopoverty World Conference, focused on fighting poverty through ICT, will be held at the
UN Headquarters of the United Nations and at the European Parliament office in Milan, on April 910, 2015, on the theme "Next Sustainable Development Goals: the challenge before the digital Era".
Created in the 2001 by OCCAM (UN-affiliated Observatory), in partnership with the European
Parliament, over the years the Conference has brought together the major players of the private
sphere, with the ICT Global Alliance (IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Google) in confrontation with Government
policies (from the United States with John Kerry to high level Representatives of governments of
African, Latin American and Asian countries), UN and international systems (K. Annan, A. Tourè,
Jeffrey Sachs, Neelie Kroes, EuCom v.president, etc) and the civil and academic society, in order to give
indications on the best practices to adopt for a socially beneficial use of new technologies.
This year the discussion will focus on the value of the digital-services as accelerators of the
development, and on the large-scale use of the Global Platform, already approved last year, as a tool at
the service of governments, public and private institutions to interoperate effectively in the field
health, food security, education and job creation, in order to implement development policies, in line
with the recent report "The road to dignity by 2030: ending poverty, to transforming lives and protecting
the planet" of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Moreover, the Conference contributes to the
''European Year of Development" sponsored by the European Union for 2015.
Two days of high-level work, broadcasted worldwide via the UNTV channel, which will conclude with
the traditional Final Declaration defining the actions of the Infopoverty Programme 2015-2016. The
Final Declaration recommendations have been appreciated as a valuable signepost on the evolution of
the digital age in the past fifteen years: the digital revolution is moving forward changing everyone’s
habits, upsetting old socio-political structures, creating crises and opportunities. The ancien régime is
disintegrating, despite the stubborn efforts for the status quo. Now that the whole population is
connected and over 4 billion people rise from silence and marginalization, new solutions are required
by the creative entrepreneurship of young generations, and paradigms are emerging, on economicfinancial relationships and markets, which open to satisfy new and impressive needs.
Considering that 2015 is the year of the Milan EXPO and of the new UN goals, that, after having
successfully mobilized the international community regarding the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs), is currently drawing up the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will be proclaimed
next September, from the Infopoverty conference a strong contribution is expected regarding the role
that the ICT could give to the attaining of these Objectives.
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For further information contact our office at occam@occam.org, +390286991392.
General Coordination: OCCAM
Piazza Duomo- 20121 MILANO -Italy- tel +39 02 86991392 fax +39 02.8057573, TLC 0286915121; occam@occam.org
USA representative: Gloria Kins, 131 E 66th ST, N.Y. Tel. +01 212 628-1743 Fax +01 212 288-6848
Dr. John Steffens, InfoPoverty Institute (University of Oklahoma), Tel. (405)-596-3925, email: steffens@ou.edu
UN Representative in New York: Toshihiko Murata, email: toshi@muratas.org
UN Representative in Geneva: IngeLeutscher, P.O. Box 265, CH-1201 Geneva 21, Switzerland, email: il@excellence-international.ch
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