By Steve Song, on March 3rd, 2009
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This week’s Economist has an excellent special report on waste, entitled Talking Rubbish. It contains the usual Economist savaging of government decision-making and bureaucracy but more importantly some very interesting news on waste management around the world. Worth the read (or the listen if you [...]
By Steve Song, on September 29th, 2008
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It’s time to get down to business and start developing a civil society position on spectrum management in South Africa. The key purpose of spectrum management is to maximise the value that society gains from the radio spectrum. That has traditionally been done in a [...]
By Steve Song, on August 4th, 2008
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he One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project comes in for a lot of criticism for being, among other things, “centralised and top-down”. Critics also argue that academia and philanthropy should not be interfering in areas where the market is clearly in a better place both [...]
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