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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

The plan will help determine the future of Internet access across the country. As organizations with a stake in the future of communications, we must ensure that the commissioners hear our call for fast, affordable, ubiquitous, and open Internet access. It also requires the FCC to begin drafting a national broadband plan.

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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. 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. Racist practices familiar within capitalism are also reproduced in the platform economy.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. 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. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. Roger Martin).

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