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MobileActive Strategy Guide Now Available for Download

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide released today by MobileActive, a global network of organizations and. individuals using mobile phones for activism and civic engagement. communicate and are far more pervasive than the Internet. a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a. of types of activism and advocacy.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. percent, the highest in the world.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. 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. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!)

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