Gordon Brown asks Google to help the poor

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Source: Daily Telegraph

The Prime Minister is in talks to involve leading international companies, including internet giant Google and investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, to tackle a “development emergency” in the world’s poorest countries.

Discussions have been held with 20 major players in the private sector in to persuade them to put their expertise into action to improve skills and infrastructure, and provide investment capital.

Gordon Brown hopes the plan will put the international community back on course to achieve seven UN development goals by 2015, directed at reducing poverty in all its forms including hunger, lack of income, education, and enterprise. A UN report has shown that the international community is on course to miss goals for tackling poverty, education, health and sanitation, unless something more is done.

Among the companies that have been approached to help ways for increasing growth and encouraging enterprise in poor countries also include telecoms company Vodafone, and American supermarket firm Wal-Mart.

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1. Google replies: Sure...but aren't you a government? Shouldn't you be helping too....

instead of sending your soldiers to foreign lands at great cost. Re-invest those resources back home.

Prioritize...England.