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Article

27 Jul 2011

Author:
Emeka Aginam, Vanguard [Nigeria]

Use technology to help achieve MDGs – Microsoft boss, others urge

At the just concluded world’s premier student technology competition, Imagine Cup 2011 held in New York...[said] that attainment of Millennium Development Goals...by the year 2015 deadline requires urgent assignment by the creative students who showcased their products at the event that had about 400 technology wiz kids from 70 countries around the world...Microsoft had asked some of the world’s most talented students, software programmers, hardware developers, game designers, video enthusiasts, and dreamers to imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems as identified by the United Nation in the Millennium Development Goals...Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer...urged the participating students to act boldly to meet the social and economic targets of MDGs.