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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The countries of Eastern Europe are largely on track to develop their WEEE Directive laws. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. Things are actually going pretty well in Europe. Asia is also a good news-bad news story.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

For instance, tech companies use algorithmic management to precisely surveil and manage the details of workers’ daily working conditions—tracking every delivery time, cataloging every customer review, mapping workers’ daily locations, even noting the length of bathroom breaks.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Seoul, South Korea After an almost restful whirlwind of meetings in California, it was off to Seoul for the Eighth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy. Kipp’s idea was that we could take this paper-based rape reporting system and build it on top of our Martus secure human rights software platform. Roger Martin).

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