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Guam and the Consortium

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Japan is the biggest source of tourists for Guam, with growing numbers from other Asian nations like South Korea. The FSM, which is made up of four distinct island states (Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap) sent teams from each of their states as well as the national government. The presence is growing: the U.S.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Flickr Photo by Chi King The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on how to draft America's national broadband plan. It also requires the FCC to begin drafting a national broadband plan. The plan will help determine the future of Internet access across the country. It's essential that they hear from us.

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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. don't have a coherent national collection infrastructure. According to Park Young-Woo of the United Nations Environment Program, the Asia-Pacific region now produces more than half of global e-waste. World Snapshot.

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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. Racist practices familiar within capitalism are also reproduced in the platform economy.

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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. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. When I travel, I write up detailed notes on who I meet with and what we discussed.

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