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The aim of this panel is to facilitate a discussion on the practice of interaction design in the Global South in the context of current global discourses on development, as particularly evidenced in the United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda. The panel will generate a thought-provoking debate based on different experiences and cultural and political reflections on designing and innovating...

I n September 2015, under the leadership of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the international community took a huge step forward for people, the planet, and prosperity with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pave a brave path towards a world of equity and inclusion, health, including sexual and reproductive heal...

With the rapid rate of urbanisation in developing countries across Asia and Africa, about 70% of the world’s population is expected to be living in cities by 2050. In their density and complexity, cities often drive national economies, provide a rich array of specialised services, ideas and innovation, with diverse social and cultural populations. However, with an estimated one billion people l...

Currently the United Nations are negotiating the next generation of global development goals: the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for the Post 2015 agenda. The previous 10 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2000) have helped to accelerate development in many lowand middleincome countries (LAMICs) (United Nations, 2013). While ‘‘[t]here have been ...

In its Millennium Declaration of September 2000, the United Nations (UN) adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to be reached in 2015 through concerted efforts worldwide. According to UN calculations, the estimated costs in terms of additional development aid of meeting the MDGs in all countries vary from US$121 billion in 2006 to $189 billion in 2015. It appears that while Asia is we...