It has long been speculated that Economically Less Developed Countries (ELDCs) can leapfrog the West's development path, skipping the worst of the social, infrastructural and environmental problems the West went through in the process. But what would be the goal instead? As Professor David Orr puts it, “the public, I believe, knows what we are against but not what we are for. And there are many things that should be stopped, but what should be started?" The model of a regenerative, circular economy is certainly an alluring goal, and it is one which can be achieved by skipping some of the sunk costs of the West's linear model. Imagine both the barriers and opportunities of implementing widespread adoption of the mobile internet and the associated implied opportunities, mass distributed renewable energy, reverse cycles and collaboration for effective material flows, additive manufacturing, regional remanufacturing... Nevertheless, there are barriers to the adoption of a circular economy anywhere: is there something about an ELDC such as Nigeria that might inhibit the successful roll-out of a new economic model? Join us in this DIF session with three guests well-placed to tackle questions like these as we discuss how the implementation of a circular economy might differ in a developing economy.