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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. education laws as part of receiving extensive funding. The presence is growing: the U.S. is relocating our units from Okinawa to Guam and this could grow the island's population anywhere from 20% to 40%.

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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. As a result, it is only done on an industrial level in a few dozen countries.

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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. Without effective deterrents, Internet providers will continue to discriminate against lawful content. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. We should look to other models.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. has a patchwork of laws in half of the U.S.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. The Marrakesh Treaty. That’s all of the legal work-up on a treaty and how U.S.

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