Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the launch today in New York of a global initiative to harness digital technologies to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (<"http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/">MDGs). Known as the MDGs eNabler, the initiative comprises a set of online tools aimed at providing users around the world with resources and tools to accelerate progress on the MDGs at the national level. The project was spearheaded by the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (<"http://www.un-gaid.org/">UNGAID), with support from governments and private corporations, academia and civil society. More than 80 government leaders, chief executives from technology companies from all around the world, and senior UN officials took part in todays launch. The MDGs eNabler brings together many innovative components, including an ICT solutions matrix, a strategic planner, a portal of ICT-for-development portals, simulation and game tools, and a so-called compendium of excellence. It serves as a one-stop-shop for policy-makers, planners, project managers and development practitioners, seeking to implement national development strategies and programmes. The Global Alliance for ICT and Development was established in 2006 as a multi-stakeholder platform to put in practice the spirit and vision of the World Summit on the Information Society and to promote the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the MDGs.