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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. Bookshare.org is a consultant to the Pacific CIMAP: our virtual library suits their geography as long as you can get access to the Internet. The presence is growing: the U.S. Not quite ready for students, yet!

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

The plan will help determine the future of Internet access across the country. As organizations with a stake in the future of communications, we must ensure that the commissioners hear our call for fast, affordable, ubiquitous, and open Internet access. It also requires the FCC to begin drafting a national broadband plan.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. Its well document practices of uncontrolled burning, and other informal recycling practices are a major source of groundwater pollution. 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. 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. Seoul, South Korea After an almost restful whirlwind of meetings in California, it was off to Seoul for the Eighth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it.

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