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Earth Day 2010: Recycle

Tech Soup

The only countries that have laws that set up electronic recycling collection and processing systems are South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the 27 countries of the European Union, five provinces in Canada, and 20 states in the United States. read more.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. Deregulation has produced monopolistic practices that have resulted in higher prices for consumers and slowed the deployment of competitive networks. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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How to do social media marketing during the pandemic

Socialbrite

This is a good time to experiment, to host conversations about a variety of subjects of interest to your target audiences, and to create valuable evergreen content on your blog to enhance your organization’s SEO. For example, Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand have done a better job in containing the virus. Go global.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Airbnb is another example of extractive platform capitalism, as the company delivers hearty profits to its private owners, who are far removed from local host communities. cities, Airbnb hosts avoid traditional hotel taxation.) Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I spent one day with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as they hosted an event for the Technology Partner Network (I’m one of a couple of hundred of tech advisors in the network). Met with the UN Foundation about a major grant they are giving us to bring Bookshare to India. And much more… Washington, D.C. Roger Martin).

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