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The Upcoming E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference in South Africa

Tech Soup

As collection and processing of e-waste and discarded electronics in Africa reaches worrisome proportions, industry leaders and policymakers from all over the world are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on June 7, 2013.

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Call for Abstracts: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy in South Africa

Forum One

This looks like a fascinating event to take place in South Africa this October: The International Conference on Knowledge Economy. The promise of the knowledge economy has attracted the interest of national governments both in advanced industries and developing economies.

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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

I've just returned from organizing an electronics recycling conference in Cape Town, South Africa, where I met Dr. Hylton Villet, the chairman of MyDigitalBridge in Namibia. Namibia is a medium-sized country that borders South Africa. It's located on the southwest Atlantic coast of Africa.

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Results of the African E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference

Tech Soup

A couple weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming e-waste and refurbishment standards conference in South Africa that I was co-organizing. The event's purpose was to join industry and government in putting into action some of the precepts developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That is why we have exceptions: to lower transaction costs and secure the civil rights of people with disabilities to have equal opportunity • That is why we need a binding instrument that makes copyright exceptions a global norm, and allows for import and export of these materials. •

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Send March out with a blast to Congress

Judi Sohn

Eric spent 2 weeks in South Africa, then we went right in to Call-on Congress, C3 ’s annual grassroots training and lobby day. This bill would establish a national colorectal cancer screening program for Americans between the ages of 50-64 who do not have adequate health insurance. What a month.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Areas served: US, India, South Africa. The National Education Association Foundation is a national nonprofit and philanthropic organization based in Washington, DC. While most grants are made in Arizona, grants may be made nationally as well. The Kresge Foundation. Areas served: US. The NEA Foundation.

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