Copyright © 2001, Idea Group Publishing. Despite the rapid advancement of technology in the last few decades, accurate, on-time and on-budget completion of information systems development projects is still a vision rather than a reality. The software crisis is still very much alive in the new millennium as it was in the last. The sudden popularity of Internet and electronic commerce poses a new...

Extreme poverty, experienced by approximately 1.2 billion people, is considered by many to be the most significant crises in the world today. To give focus to the task of poverty reduction, in September 2000, the United Nations has established eight Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. The goals cover many areas, including income, education, gender equality, children mortality, ...