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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

As the United States continues its fall in international broadband ratings, it is clear that our current system, devoid of competition and consumer choice, is putting private interests above the public good. The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. Competition and Choice. We should look to other models.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. World Snapshot. It has been developing since 2002.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Racist practices familiar within capitalism are also reproduced in the platform economy. If the Uber and Lyft drivers in a particular city united to develop or purchase their own ride-hailing app, and collectively governed the use of the app and the equitable distribution of resulting revenues, this would be a platform cooperative.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. This time, I had the benefit of help. Visiting the Hon.

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