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MobileActive Strategy Guide Now Available for Download

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via a press release from Michael Stein Mobile phones have enormous potential in electoral, voter. Guide released today by MobileActive, a global network of organizations and. individuals using mobile phones for activism and civic engagement. mobiles in civil society, targets nonprofit and non-governmental organizations.

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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

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. Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence.

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