Ethan Zuckerman is a Senior Researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School.  Incredibly and embarrassingly, I never managed to link with the Berkman Center during my time in Cambridge, so I was thrilled to see Ethan would be speaking at TEDGlobal this past week.  His talk was another of the highlights of the conference, and one of particular relevance for those of us interested in how the access to information that the Internet affords impacts developm...

Tim Jackson, who among other things is the UK government’s advisor on sustainable development, raised an important issue at TEDGlobal this week in Oxford.  At least I thought so, because it struck at one of the central things on my mind these days (outlined in a recent blog posting here).

Jackson makes two points, one obvious and the other less so.  The first is that economic growth is fundamentally constrained by the resources of this planet.  Our way out to date has been a blind faith in ...