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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

Want to earn some money in your spare time by ferrying food or riders around town? Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Want to share your extra room with a traveler and make a few bucks? Airbnb has an app for that. Craigslist can help.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Like many other leaders of nonprofit organizations, I travel an unreasonable fraction of the time. We travel because it‘s the best use of our time in finding the partnerships, insights, and the money our teams need to create more social change. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative.

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