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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

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. It now has a quarter billion Internet users and 450 million mobile phone users. Things are actually going pretty well in Europe.

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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. Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities.

Platform 140
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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Her story is so compelling, I’ve already written a blog post about this incredible woman, entitled Rockstar Nairobi Social Entrepreneur. 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. Enough said! Roger Martin).

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