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Earth Day 2010: Recycle

Tech Soup

Recycling is such a complex topic, but basically it involves collecting and processing used materials to recover raw materials, which can then be used in the creation of new products. Recycling is, however, much more energy efficient than mining or extracting and processing virgin materials.

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MobileActive Strategy Guide Now Available for Download

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a. started their voter registration process through a mobile campaign; this year. Internationally, mobile phones have been used for systematic. election monitoring Macedonia and Kenya; among women voters in Saudi Arabia, and.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

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. Establish a better complaint process for companies that break the rules and penalties for violators. Bad policy decisions should be reversed. We should look to other models.

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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. It does have an industry standard for proper electronics recycling and processing, and a developed industry. percent, the highest in the world.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Relatedly, racially biased facial-recognition technology has resulted in drivers of color losing jobs due to computer-assisted mismatches, without any due process or evidence of wrongdoing. Growing government support in South Korea provides one example of the possibilities.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Mainly, it was interesting to hear the perspective of a bunch of fellow tech advisors and be part of a process of collectively getting smarter. I had a joint meeting (both Republicans and Democrats) with the key Senate Judiciary Committee staff who are the copyright experts, and learned a lot about the process. Student privacy.

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