Mobile telecommunications

Africa calling

IPN Opinion article

Author: Alec van Gelder

Mobile phones have transformed the lives of millions Africans for the better - but Ethiopia's government has stifled the ICT industry

Europe finds you can be too careful

IPN Opinion article

This article examines Europe's precautionary approach to regulation. IPN director Julian Morris, author of Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle, argues that
""The fact that if you applied the precautionary principle to itself it would self-destruct means that it will be replaced by more rational ways of evaluating risk".