{"id":15796,"date":"2015-09-26T05:10:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/70\/?p=15796"},"modified":"2015-09-25T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T23:58:10","slug":"special-guests-bill-and-melinda-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/70\/2015\/09\/26\/special-guests-bill-and-melinda-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Special guests Bill and Melinda Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[wooslider slider_type=&#8221;attachments&#8221; thumbnails=&#8221;default&#8221; show_captions=&#8221;true&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly and his senior staff enjoyed a wide ranging discussion with\u00a0Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, and\u00a0their senior advisers Mark Suzman and Carol Welch today. \u00a0Up-scaling data collection, data processing and capacity building, especially in developing countries, will be key for the monitoring and follow-up of the SDGs. The PGA thanked Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation for its decisive contribution in this regard, as well as in addressing international health and agriculture-related goals. Given the transformational role of technology and its importance for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, Mr Lykketoft invited the Gates Foundation\u00a0to consider supporting the implementation of the Technology Facilitation Mechanism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"woo-sc-divider\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[wooslider slider_type=&#8221;attachments&#8221; thumbnails=&#8221;default&#8221; show_captions=&#8221;true&#8221;] The President of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ General Assembly and his senior staff enjoyed a wide ranging discussion with\u00a0Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, and\u00a0their senior advisers Mark Suzman and Carol Welch today. \u00a0Up-scaling data collection, data processing and capacity building, especially in developing countries, will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[521,491],"class_list":["post-15796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-bill-melinda-gates","tag-summit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Special guests Bill and Melinda Gates - General Assembly of the United Nations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/pga\/70\/2015\/09\/26\/special-guests-bill-and-melinda-gates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Special guests Bill and Melinda Gates - General Assembly of the United Nations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[wooslider slider_type=&#8221;attachments&#8221; 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