Role of ICT in achieving MDGs and sustainable development

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark a historic and effective method of global mobilization to achieve a set of important social priorities worldwide. They express widespread public concern about poverty, hunger, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. The MDGs help to promote global awareness, development of education, political accountability, social feedback, and public pressures which are related to Information & Communication Technology (ICT). Developing countries have made substantial progress towards achievement of the MDGs, although the progress is highly variable across goals, countries, and regions. Some countries will achieve all or most of the MDGs, whereas others will achieve very few. By 2015, most countries will have made meaningful progress towards most of the goals. They have become incorporated into the work of non-governmental organizations and civil society more generally, and are taught to students at all levels of education. This paper has thrown light into the ICT for enhancing the MDGs towards the sustainable development of education.