ICTs, the Internet and Sustainability: An Interview with Ashok Khosla
IISD's David Souter interviews Ashok Khosla, President, IUCN and Chair, Development Alternatives Group, on the successes and failures of sustainability, the limitations of "green economy" thinking and the role of technological innovation, with particular attention to the South Asian experience.
Dr. Khosla asserts that "Information technology is a democratising force, and to that extent it's going to have a deep, a transformative, impact on political systems as on technological and social ones."
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