Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals – the challenge of this generation
Speech to the The Internet Governance Forum he IGF 2013 is being held in Bali, Indonesia on 22-25 October. The overarching theme for the 2013 IGF meeting is: "Building Bridges"- Enhancing Multistakeholder Cooperation for Growth and Sustainable Development". A video of the speech can be watched here I want to cover four areas in my presentation A little of history of the MDGs Their implementation The development of SDGs in the run up to Rio – I’ll leave Jan Gustav in the final session to take you from Rio to now Some lessons for World Summit on the Information Society process The history I remember well the preparations for the Millennium Summit in 2000. It was happening just as the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WBCSD) was starting to gain traction. Like many environment and sustainable development NGOs ‘Stakeholder Forum’, which I was then the Executive Director of, made a strategic decision that the Millennium Summit seemed to be go...