Ben Garside
Primary tabs
Researcher, Sustainable Markets Group
+44 (0) 20 3463 7399
ben.garside@iied.org
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.
Languages:
English, Spanish (intermediate)