Sustainable Development Goal 3 is unlikely to be achieved without renewed effort

Sustainable development: how to manage something that is subjective and never can be achieved?

René Kemp & Pim Martens 1 UNU-MERIT & International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands (email: [email protected]) 2 International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands (email: [email protected]...

Containing antimicrobial resistance: a renewed effort.

This month in the Bulletin, a research paper by Togoobaatar et al. reveals that more than 40% of children in Mongolia are given antibiotics without prescription for respiratory tract infections. 1 Another paper published recently by Kumarasamy et al. highlights the serious threat posed by the NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1) superbug, a microbial threat for which there is limited surveil...

Nutrition: a quintessential sustainable development goal.

In the fi nal paper of our 2008 Lancet Series on maternal and child undernutrition, Saul Morris and colleagues wrote that, “The international nutrition system—made up of international and donor organisations, academia, civil society, and the private sector—is fragmented and dysfunctional”. They concluded that, incredibly, no evidence base existed to prioritise actions to improve nutrition. And ...

Grand convergence: a future sustainable development goal?

Why is True eGovernment still difficult to be achieved?

The objective of this paper is to present a framework to understand the complex and ambiguous phenomenon of Electronic Government (eGovernment) and the several existing models that allow to understand it. Then, the paper discusses the main difficulties in achieving true eGovernment and a way to overcome them. In fact, the eGovernment label has been often given for granted by simply using ICT, e...