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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. About half of all people in Africa own mobile phones. or Latin America.

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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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