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The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), based at The Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a bottom-up, community led approach to show how villages in developing countries can get out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide. With well-targeted, practical inputs can help the community invest in a path leading to self-sustaining development. There are 80 Millennium Villages clustered in 10 countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa. MVP is an important development process for empowering communities to invest in a package of integrated interventions aiming to increase food production, improve access to safe water, health care, education and infrastructure. The process benefits from synergies of the integrated approach and relies on community leadership as empowered by proven technological inputs. MVP is committed to a science-based approach to assess and monitor the progress of the communities towards clear objectives; the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to do so with mechanisms that are scalable and sustainable. This approach offers much more than simply collecting and analyzing data since the mechanism used for recording progress would provide a bridge over the divide which separates the haves and the have-nots (by facilitating the sharing of solutions from one community to another bidirectionally). By so doing, it allows people to enhance their own futures in a sustainable manner. Solutions found in one community are transferable to similar communities in other MVP villages. To achieve this goal, the MVP requires an information and communication system which can provide both necessary infrastructure for monitoring and evaluation, and tools for communicating among the villages, cities and countries. This system is called the Millennium Global Village-Net (MGV-Net). It takes advantage of the latest in open source software (OpenMRS), databases (MySQL), interface terminology, a centralized concept dictionary, and uses appropriate technology locally for data entry.
千年村项目（MVP）总部设在哥伦比亚大学地球研究所，是一种自下而上、社区主导的方法，旨在展示发展中国家的村庄如何摆脱困扰全球超过 10 亿人的贫困陷阱。通过有针对性的、实用的投入，可以帮助社区投资于一条通往可持续发展的道路。在撒哈拉以南非洲的 10 个国家中，有 80 个千年村项目。MVP 是一个赋权社区投资于一揽子综合干预措施的重要发展进程，旨在增加粮食生产、改善获得安全饮用水、医疗保健、教育和基础设施的机会。该进程受益于综合方法的协同作用，并依赖于经证明的技术投入赋予社区的领导力。MVP 致力于采用基于科学的方法评估和监测社区朝着明确目标（千年发展目标）取得的进展，并通过可扩展和可持续的机制来实现这一目标。这种方法不仅仅是收集和分析数据，因为用于记录进展的机制将提供一座跨越鸿沟的桥梁，将贫富分隔开来（通过促进从一个社区到另一个社区的解决方案的双向共享）。通过这样做，它允许人们以可持续的方式增强自己的未来。在一个社区中找到的解决方案可以转移到 MVP 其他村庄的类似社区。为了实现这一目标，MVP 需要一个信息和通信系统，该系统可以提供监测和评估所需的基础设施，以及村庄、城市和国家之间的通信工具。这个系统被称为千年全球村网络（MGV-Net）。它利用了最新的开源软件（OpenMRS）、数据库（MySQL）、接口术语、集中式概念字典，并在本地使用适当的技术进行数据录入。
