Developing agriculture in Africa has become even more urgent since the United Nations warned in a report earlier this month that governments must increase investment in agriculture because a billion people around the world are going hungry in sub-Saharan Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

They have yielded powers not just to Brussels, but to independent central banks (for 11 of them, to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt), and to sub-national governments in their own regions.

ECONOMIST: Beyond Berlin

Some of Google's steps toward giving emerging markets wireless access are public, with the company working with other organizations to convince governments in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia to change regulations to create new wireless networks using previously restricted airwaves.

WSJ: Google to Fund, Develop Wireless Networks in Emerging Markets

It also encourages cooperation amongst governments and civil society in Asia and the Pacific Sub-Region.

UNESCO: Foundation