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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. 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. We should look to other models. Access and the Digital Divide. Net Neutrality.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. World Snapshot. percent, the highest in the world.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. What’s not to like? Not So Rosy After All.

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