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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

This is true for most of Asia where the problem is becoming critical. South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. There are no legal structures for electronics recycling in Africa yet. percent, the highest in the world.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Compounding the normal difficulties of raising capital, platform cooperatives face additional problem of larger start-up costs. In this regard, the problem for platform cooperatives is not so much technical or financial as it is political. Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities.

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

NTEN

We can break down American values into subatomic particles: communitarian (believe in power of community) versus individualist (believe in power of individual) egalitarian (believe in equality) versus hierarchists (embrace hieracrchy, top-down structure) Millennials are communitarian and egalitarian.

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