The Guardian has teamed up with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to launch a global development website, which went live today.
Guardian Global Development will track the goals set out by the United Nations Millennium Declaration, aimed at improving the lives of the world's poorest people.
And it will do so with contributions from the Guardian Data Store hosting data and visualisations from a collection of highly regarded sources.
The new site, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will host comment from a range of voices and provide special focus to the eight goals set out by the UN in 2000.
Madeleine Bunting, a Guardian columnist and associate editor, said in an introductory blogpost:
"Meeting all the targets by 2015 was always going to be a huge global challenge, and several are unlikely to be met, but they have proved highly effective at galvanising global commitment and have achieved significant progress in many places around the world.
"These are the greatest promises the world has ever made, and the pressure must be maintained to ensure that there is no reversal of the precious achievements."
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