Ben Garside

Expertise:

Information & communications technologies for sustainable development; pro-poor business models; monitoring and evaluation – better measuring impact; energy and low-powered ICT’s; effects of private voluntary standards (PVS) and embedded carbon on smallholder market access.

Current work:

Community-driven ICT’s – improving impact; opportunities and risks new technologies bring to the developing world; decentralised energy - local initiatives; base of the pyramid paradigm and sustainable business models; consumption and equity.

Before IIED:

Engineering background with extensive experience in ICT consultancy and telecoms; postgraduate degree in development management at the London School of Economics.
 

Links:

Sustainable Markets
Publications on the IIED database

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