Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

but he was also integral to the development of TechSoup's own refurbished computers program. The statistics are similar for mobile phones, except that phones are discarded even more quickly than PCs. Jim will be there to help kick things off and to report back on the latest industry news from Europe. ICRS Goes to Europe.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. A recent World Economic Forum report estimates that shifting to this model could add more than $1 trillion every year to the global economy by 2025 and create 100,000 new jobs within the next five years. Here is ADB's story.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 26, 2007

Technology Review published a survey of the role of mobile technology in the developing economies this past January. Going beyond the merely anecdotal, the article tried to put some metric on the role mobile technology plays in growth in these countries. percent, or around US$12 billion for an economy the size of China.

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