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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

As the United States continues its fall in international broadband ratings, it is clear that our current system, devoid of competition and consumer choice, is putting private interests above the public good. Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S.

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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. Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things region in southern China is the poster child of digital dumps and bad electronics recycling. World Snapshot.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

In their report Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism , Yeshimabeit Milner and Amy Traub demonstrate how this behavior exacerbates racial inequality, ever more surveillance, and other discriminations that predominantly affect people of color—by, for example, digitally channeling lower-income users toward predatory services (e.g.,

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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 a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. This is what my team calls a karma gig. Enough said!

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