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The United Nations is launching a Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development in Kuala Lumpur. Craig Barrett, Chairman of Intel Corporation Board chairs this Alliance. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan approved the alliance as a largest provider of information and communication technologies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. These goals are: 1. Get rid of extreme hunger and poverty 2. Achieving universal primary education 3. Promoting gender equality and empowerment of women 4. Reducing child mortality 5. Improving maternal health 6. Fighting HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other disease 7. Ensuring environmental sustainability 8. Developing a global partnership for development This Barrett will lead the way in advancing the objectives of the World Summit on the Information Society and promoting a universal and inclusive information society. Intel is planning to spend approx $1 billion to promote World Ahead program. The another technology, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific opened the UN’s first Information and Communications Technology for Development and Training. Via : Information Week

No doubt, fight against deadly HIV/AIDS is in full swing. However, it would not be wrong to say that to a great extent the energy, the efforts and the money that has been used to stave off this disease have not turned out fecund. However, now supercomputers are here to try their hands in our fight against HIV/AIDS. Actually, these supercomputers, which have been donated by Intel, would reveal that how a person gets infected form another person by tracking movement of the virus throughout the body. Means, now the fight against HIV/AIDS is soon going to be high-tech, which I hope will bring out quite positive results that we are waiting for eagerly. Via: Uber Gizmo