Publications: Sustainable Communication: How communication technology and the internet create both opportunities for and threats to sustainable development (1 Mar 2013)

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Sustainable Communication: How communication technology and the internet create both opportunities for and threats to sustainable development

» Don MacLean, Opencanada.org, 2013.Commentary, copyright: The Global Connectivity Group for Sustainable Development

Do we need to rethink Sustainable Development Goals? The internet and ICTs are changing the parameters of sustainability by creating opportunities and threats that simply did not exist when the 1987 Brundtland Report and the 1992 Earth Summit put sustainable development on the international agenda.

The views expressed are his own views and do not necessarily reflect the views of IISD.

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