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challenges with tech solutions in the fight against extreme
poverty  Sarah McCue's picture The goals of multilateral
development agencies, United Nations and World Bank Group are
laser-focused on the post-2015 development agenda, calling for
transformative change by eradicating extreme poverty and raising
economic prosperity for all.  This vision for a new era in
development is rightly bold and ambitious, but cannot be
delivered without fully embracing the transformative power of
technology and innovation, including information and
communications technology or ICT.  Most would agree that
technology solutions exist for most every seemingly intractable
problem.  Yet often our greatest challenge is to match the
problem with the solution.  In my various “technology for
development” and trade promotion roles with the United Nations
and World Bank, it is so clearly evident that government leaders
know what problems they need to solve, but are simply unaware o