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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The countries of Eastern Europe are largely on track to develop their WEEE Directive laws. 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.

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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. 21 Such details are hard to track, however, as rideshare companies don’t always allow drivers to clearly see the total fare paid by the customer.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. Took pictures of the lunar eclipse next to the Empire State Building(!) Roger Martin).

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