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Millennium Development Goals: A New Source for Open Innovation
Author(s) -
Guiney Pat,
Flanigan Laura,
Guth Julia
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
design management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1948-7169
pISSN - 1557-0614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1948-7169.2011.00111.x
Subject(s) - summit , poverty , millennium development goals , action (physics) , open innovation , action plan , economic growth , plan (archaeology) , open source , political science , business , development economics , marketing , computer science , geography , management , economics , cartography , software , programming language , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
In 2010, the United Nations concluded its summit with the adoption of a global action plan to achieve eight anti‐poverty goals by a target date of 2015. Imagine what design and an attitude of open innovation could do for the most impoverished among us—as well as to the triple bottom line.