The mirage of public goods?
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Thanks to Mo Tanweer for suggesting an essay title for my A2 students this week “In this day and age, public goods are a mirage… the closer you get to them, the more they fade. Discuss” I will add in an extra element asking students to consider the relative merits / de-merits of public sector provision as well as funding of public goods.
But the essence of the question is perfect - the extent to which rapid advances in technology is changing the nature of public-good style products.
Here are some related BBC news video and photo resources for this topic
Internet football piracy alert (March 2009)
Virgin’s plans to tackle piracy (June 2009)
Anger at UK file-sharing crackdown (August 2009)
Broadband pipe brings internet to Africa (September 2009)
Keynan school without internet (September 2009)
Fine for Google over French books (December 2009)
In pictures: Nairobi’s digital divide
Testing flood water barriers for houses
Leeds flood scheme ‘needs £100m’
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