article thumbnail

Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. Japan has a structured system based on their Law for the Recycling of Specified Kinds of Home Appliances and their Law for Promotion of Effective Utilization of Resources.

article thumbnail

Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

As more and more users have come to rely on these online services, synergistic “network effects” have added both value and profitability to several dominant platform companies. Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities. 9</sup). 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

Platform 139
article thumbnail

MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

We can break down American values into subatomic particles: communitarian (believe in power of community) versus individualist (believe in power of individual) egalitarian (believe in equality) versus hierarchists (embrace hieracrchy, top-down structure) Millennials are communitarian and egalitarian.

Change 64