What are our Goals?
What are our Goals?
- This should not be a technology-driven project
- Sustainable Human Development. . .
- “enabling environment for long, healthy, and creative lives”
- “generates economic growth and distributes benefits equitably, regenerates rather than destroys the environment, empowers people rather than marginalizing them, enables people’s participation in the decisionmaking process, and expands their opportunities and choices”
- This has been translated into: poverty alleviation, sustainable livelihoods, the regeneration of environment, and advancement of women in development
- It also involves: lifelong learning and the realization of human potential, cultural and linguistic diversity/pluralism, the construction and peaceful negotiation of social relationships within and between communities
- The emphasis of all of the above being on on-going participatory processes in which people are actively constructing their own vision of development