Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

Goal 8 Develop a global partnership for development
The United Nations Millennium Declaration represents a global social compact: 
developing countries will do more to ensure their own development, and developed 
countries will support them through aid, debt relief and better opportunities for trade. 
Progress in each of these areas has already begun to yield results. But developed 
countries have fallen short of targets they have set for themselves. To achieve the 

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Millennium Development Goals, increased aid and debt relief must be accompanied by 
further opening of trade, accelerated transfer of technology and improved employment 
opportunities for the growing ranks of young people in the developing world.
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Source: The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005, 
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/pdf/MDG%20Book.pdf
For more information on the MDGs, please visit: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/.

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ANNEX 3 
PROGRAMME 
Our Common Humanity in the Information Age 
Principles and Values for Development 
United Nations, New York 
29 November 2006 
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. 
Registration, Visitors’ Entrance, General Assembly Building
PLENARY SESSION, Conference Room 4 
9:40 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Portraits of Our Common Humanity at the United Nations
9:45 a.m. – 9:47 a.m.
Welcome remarks
Mr. Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinat or, Global Alliance for ICT and Development
9:47 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.
Introductory remarks
Mr.Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General, Department of Public Information, United 
Nations, Chair
9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.