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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. Asia is also a good news-bad news story. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics.

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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. Her story is so compelling, I’ve already written a blog post about this incredible woman, entitled Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur. My first visit was with Carol Wanjiku, the CEO of our outsourcing partner Daproim. Enough said! Roger Martin).

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