Empty promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production
This research discovers that G20 country governments’ support to fossil fuel production marries bad economics with potentially disastrous consequences for climate change. In effect, governments are propping up the production … Continue reading
Non-agricultural informal work can yield higher returns than formal work
Priorities for Boosting Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence for Mozambique Should policy-makers, including foreign donors, focus employment strategies in sub-Saharan Africa on strengthening access to formal wage employment or on … Continue reading
Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization
This article describes an emergent logic of accumulation in the networked sphere, ‘surveillance capitalism,’ and considers its implications for ‘information civilization.’ Google is to surveillance capitalism what General Motors was … Continue reading
Principles for Knowledge Management for Development – lessons from innovation
Originally posted on KM on a dollar a day:
This week UNICEF is partnering with the Government of Finland to organize a big innovation shindig – the rather grand sounding…
Is capitalism “mutating” into an infotech utopia?
Ann Pettifor reviews Paul Mason’s recent book PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future “Mason is optimistic about technology’s ability to eliminate pricing, to free up knowledge and to empower society … Continue reading
Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy: Freedom on the Net 2015
Internet freedom around the world declined for the fifth consecutive year in 2015 as more governments censored information of public interest while also expanding surveillance and cracking down on privacy … Continue reading
