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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. Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things The countries of Eastern Europe are largely on track to develop their WEEE Directive laws. World Snapshot. Latin America.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

For instance, tech companies use algorithmic management to precisely surveil and manage the details of workers’ daily working conditions—tracking every delivery time, cataloging every customer review, mapping workers’ daily locations, even noting the length of bathroom breaks. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. 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. Interviewed several candidates for executive positions at Benetech.

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