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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. 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. Adopt Net Neutrality requirements that go beyond the FCC's current broadband policy statement. Net Neutrality.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things It has been developing since 2002. or Latin America.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

22 Nationwide, Uber adopted a complex new “full fare” algorithm in 2021 that many drivers claim makes it increasingly difficult to track rider fares or understand what they will earn on a given ride. But in the end, all of these avenues are quite limited in terms of the capital they can provide.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I had a chance to meet with staffers involved in the drafting of two key federal bills that are most likely to be adopted, and shared my issues. Kipp has been a leading software developer in the region, creating software around election monitoring and government transparency just to name a few. This is what my team calls a karma gig.

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