ICTDev Pulse

Just a day after completing the country’s Comprehensive Development Strategy, the expert in charge of Development admitted that he does not actually exist. The expert had done a superb job prioritizing the needs of the poor across 9 major sectors and hundreds of development interventions, not to mention mainstreaming gender and the environment. He had calculated the country’s financing requirements to attain the Millennium Development Goals, as well as the country’s needs for neutral, humanitarian peacekeeping forces to end the civil war, along with a post-conflict strategy to re-integrate combatants, and a timetable for fair, competitive elections.

(The Philippine Star) Updated September 07, 2010 12:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines – The International Finance Corp. (IFC), and Daiwa Securities Group plan to issue a bond this month that will expand access to finance

for poor and low-income entrepreneurs in developing countries. IFC is a member of the World Bank Group.
The bond is expected [...]

The UN is slated to review progress on the MDGs "and other international development goals" during this month's high-level meeting in New York.

Jordan used to be one of the freest countries in the Middle East. That’s changing fast. The government is pushing to expand control over the internet, and it has begun arresting people or making defamatory remarks about the king. It looks like the government of Jordan is expanding its efforts at control in several ways. Tighter censorship over what goes into the country, more monitoring of what is posted online, and prosecuting individual cases for their activities on the internet.