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MobileActive Strategy Guide Now Available for Download

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

individuals using mobile phones for activism and civic engagement. a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a. of types of activism and advocacy. Via a press release from Michael Stein Mobile phones have enormous potential in electoral, voter. can be downloaded at here. organizing.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. World Snapshot. percent, the highest in the world.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

12 At the same time—as shown by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report in 2017—technological advancement, especially as regards the growth of the platform economy, had been chipping away at the share of income for workers, resulting in half of the decline in workers’ share of income across the globe between 1990 and 2015.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Met with current and prospective individual donors as part of my donor cultivation and stewardship efforts, by thanking current donors and explaining what we’ve accomplished with their support, and sharing our activities with prospective donors in the hopes of getting them to support Benetech. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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