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Latest global social, digital, mobile data for ya

AFP Blog

Latest global social, digital, mobile data for ya : his report presents all the key statistics, data and behavioural indicators for social, digital and mobile channels around the world. For other reports in this series, please visit [link] H/T to Social Fish'

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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. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. percent, the highest in the world.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library.

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