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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

This is true for most of Asia where the problem is becoming critical. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. It has been developing since 2002.

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Philanthropy and policing

Candid

Some 20 years ago, when working as vice president for peace and social justice at the Ford Foundation , I was approached by the Vera Institute of Justice about a global initiative focused on prosecuting the police. it was next to impossible in many other countries. it was next to impossible in many other countries.