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Cash strapped Guardian takes the CIA/Bill Gates foundation bribe
The Guardian launches global development website with Gates Foundation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gnm-press-office/guardian-launches-global-de velopment-site
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 September 2010 09.18 BST
The Guardian today has launched a new website in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help focus the world's attention on global development. The site will provide a new space for discussion and interaction on the biggest challenges affecting the lives of billions of people across the developing world, including poverty, hunger, infant mortality, adaptation to climate change and economic development.
One aim of the website, which launches just a week before a major UN summit, is to hold governments, institutions and NGOs accountable for the implementation of the United Nations millennium development goals (MDGs), which 192 countries signed up to in 2000. Huge advances have been made with many of the MDGs, and the new site will enable people around the world to better monitor how each country is performing.
For the first time, individuals will be able to access a central data store using the world's top sources for development and aid data, through which they can access development statistics, and information. For example, users will be able to find out who has given the most aid to Pakistan, or which countries have the highest Aids rates.
Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-Chief, Guardian News & Media, said: "All too often the mainstream press ignores long-term development stories. However, it is essential to have a place where some of the biggest questions facing humanity are analysed and debated, and through which we can monitor the effectiveness of the billions of pounds of aid that flows annually into the developing world. The creation of this website is a natural step for the Guardian, which has always been internationalist in its outlook and passionate about social justice."
Kate James, Chief Communications Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is part-funding the site along with Guardian News & Media, said: " We are excited to be working with the Guardian on this unique project – creating a global hub for information, debate and action around global development. We welcome the Guardian's commitment to bringing together and galvanizing the community engaged on these issues and believe that, in doing so, this hub can play an important role in putting a spotlight on global health and development."
The website features the best of the Guardian's writers on development, including Madeleine Bunting, Sarah Boseley, Larry Elliott and John Vidal, as well as bringing together a selection of the most distinctive development blogs from around the world and a monthly 'Poverty Matters' podcast. In keeping with guardian.co.uk's mutualisation strategy, the website will focus on linked reporting and response, giving readers the ability to follow conversations and debates, compare sources and links, and get involved.
It is also being supported by more than 20 of the world's leading development experts, including Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen and American economist and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jeff Sachs.
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Notes to editors:
The creation of the global development website comes in the wake of the Guardian's award-winning integrated development project in the Ugandan village of Katine.
The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals, adopted by all 192 United Nations member states in the year 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015:
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.
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ian neal
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| The same website just ran an article on the (until now under reported) links between gates foundation and monsanto so hopefully they are not completely in bill's pocket yet |
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Cash strapped when credit is from thin air? (for no good deed goes unpunished and no bad deed goes unrewarded)
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http://www.gmgplc.co.uk/ScottTrust/TheScottTrustBoard/ScottTrustBoard/ tabid/254/Default.aspx
Dame Liz Forgan DBE
Chair of the Scott Trust
Has chaired the Scott Trust since 2003. She was formerly an independent director of Guardian Media Group plc, director of programmes at Channel 4 Television, managing director of BBC Network Radio and a Guardian journalist. She is chair of the Arts Council England.
Larry Elliott
Joined the Scott Trust in 2002. He joined the Guardian as an industrial reporter from the Press Association in 1988. He became economics correspondent in 1989 and economics editor in 1995.
Andrew Graham
Joined the Scott Trust in March 2005. He is the master of Balliol College, Oxford, chair of the advisory board of the Oxford Internet Institute and an elected member of the Council of Oxford University. He was economic adviser to the prime minister, 1967-69 and 1974-76, and to the leader of the Labour Party, John Smith, 1988-94. From 1998 to 2005, he was a non-executive director of Channel 4 Television.
Will Hutton
Joined the Scott Trust in 2004. He is executive vice chair of the Work Foundation and is a governor of the London School of Economics. He was formerly on the board of Guardian News & Media and editor-in-chief of the Observer, and remains a columnist for both newspapers.
Maleiha Malik
Joined the Scott Trust in 2007. She is Reader in Law at the School of Law, King's College London. A former member of the independent human rights organisation the Council of Liberty, her main teaching, research interests and publications are in political and legal philosophy, feminist theory and discrimination law.
Geraldine Proudler
Joined the Scott Trust in 2002. She is a solicitor specialising in media law and is a partner at the law firm Olswang. She has defended the Guardian in libel actions since 1982, including successfully defending the action brought by cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken, and recently the claim by Tesco plc.
Alan Rusbridger
Joined the Scott Trust in 1997 and the Board in 1999. Joined the Guardian as a reporter in 1979, became deputy editor in 1993 and was appointed to the Guardian News & Media board in 1994. He became editor in 1995. He is editor-in-chief of Guardian News & Media, a member of the Press Complaints Commission's Code committee, a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, visiting professor of history at Queen Mary's London and chairman of the National Youth Orchestra.
Anthony Salz
Joined the Scott Trust in 2009. He is an executive vice chairman of Rothschild. For most of his career he worked as a corporate lawyer with Freshfields, becoming senior partner in 1996. He was vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the BBC from 2004 until the end of 2006. He is, among other things, chair of the Eden Trust and a trustee of the Royal Opera House, the Tate Foundation, the Media Standards Trust and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Jonathan Scott
Joined the Scott Trust in 1988. He is currently a non-executive director of Ambac Assurance UK. He was previously a director of KPMG Corporate Finance and SBC Warburg.
Andrew Miller
Joined the Scott Trust in September 2010. Appointed Guardian Media Group plc chief executive in July 2010. Andrew joined the Group as chief financial officer and was appointed to the Board in 2009. He was previously Group CFO of Trader Media Group, which is jointly owned by GMG and Apax Partners. He has also worked at Pepsico, Bass plc and Procter and Gamble.
Phil Boardman
Secretary
Appointed secretary of the Scott Trust in 2004. He joined the Group and was appointed company secretary in 2001. Previously he was group financial controller of Hickson International plc and Fenner plc. |
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