With concerts and a web site, UN Agency attacks poverty

  • 12/12/1998

Bidding to fight poverty with music and megabits, the United Nations Development Program and Cisco Systems Inc., a maker of data communications gear, have enlisted a dozen popular entertainers to kick off an Internet-based initiative to help the world's poor. The new project, called NetAid, appears to represent the most extensive partnership the United Nations has formed with private enterprise in trying to relieve poverty in the developing world.