The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight global targets for reducing extreme poverty and hunger by half and improving education, health, gender equality and environmental sustainability by 2015. Ericsson is committed to supporting the MDGs, as well as to social and economic development through access to affordable telecommunications.

Millennium Villages Projects

The Millennium Villages initiative is one example of how our commitment is being realized in order to enable rural African communities to lift themselves out of extreme poverty with the help of mobile
connectivity.

Ericsson is actively providing solutions and services to help our customers to reduce their energy and carbon impacts. We are also actively exploring innovative telecommunication solutions which support a low carbon society.

Ericsson on the list of the world´s 100 most sustainable corporations (pdf) 

Ericsson nominated for two GSMA awards 

Ericsson and Zain power Millennium Villages site by wind and sun 

Innovative tool to help rural areas

Businesses focus on human rights

Ericsson's technology key to social, economic and environmental sustainability 

Race to raise global awareness 

Technology key in fight against poverty 

Ericsson to launch mobile Innovation Center in Africa 

Ericsson joins new UN initiative to bring digital-health benefits to Africa 

Ericsson and Columbia's Earth Institute join forces to empower Millennium Villages through communications 

The Every Human Has Rights campaign is a global initiative that calls on citizens to uphold the goals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their daily lives and hold governments accountable for the same.