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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. But, we're hoping to tune up the local language synthesis, or supplement our text e-books with human narration, which might be more practical. The presence is growing: the U.S. Not quite ready for students, yet!

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Deregulation has produced monopolistic practices that have resulted in higher prices for consumers and slowed the deployment of competitive networks. 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. Bad policy decisions should be reversed.

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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

Racist practices familiar within capitalism are also reproduced in the platform economy. 48 The key, Rogers maintains, is to develop radical new strategies for financing social purpose investments, for funding communitarian rather than extractive business practices. But more is needed than Keynes’s economic “animal spirits.”

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MCON13 Live Blog: Millennial Giving (Alia McKee, Sea Change Strategies and Justin Wheeler, LINK)

NTEN

3 Steps to think about in Millennial giving There are 3 practical steps that will be helpful in thinking about millenial giving: you don''t need to build a new platform to get them to talk about your work, you just have to learn how to optimize what you''re already using. It''s a simple question but hard to crack. 1) Create a space.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, I thought I’d back up the theory with a brief picture of what this kind of travel looks like in practice. 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. That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it.

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