World Chronicle 837: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, UNDP

Michael Littlejohns interviews Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, lead author of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report, for World Chronicle program 837.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:13
• Production Date: 13 November 2001
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BETSY PISIK; BILL REILLY; MICHAEL LITTLEJOHNS; SAKIKO FUKUDA-PARR
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: COMMUNICATIONS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• MAMS Id: 2188872
• Parent Id: 827188

Description

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

This year's Human Development Report is about how people can create and use technology to improve their lives. It is also about forging new public policies to lead the revolutions in information and communications technology and biotechnology in the direction of human development. In this edition of World Chronicle, UNDP's Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, the lead author of the 2001 Human Development Report, talks about the relationship between technology and socio-economic development.

• Scripts: File; 837.pdf (31.92 KB)