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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. Deregulation has produced monopolistic practices that have resulted in higher prices for consumers and slowed the deployment of competitive networks. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. We should look to other models. Access and the Digital Divide.

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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

5 As for Uber and Lyft, these companies maintain policies that reward workers for low ride- cancellation rates—policies that are so tightly enforced, drivers are pressured to continue their rides even in the face of verbal abuse or physical assault.

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