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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. Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things It has had 30 percent growth in mobile adoption over the last 10 years.

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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. 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. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) Roger Martin).

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