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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 On the one hand, three countries have the highest electronics recycling rates in the world. In Taiwan, the recycling rate for IT equipment and appliances combined is 82. Africa has a 1 percent recycling rate for mobile phones.

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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. Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork.

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