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News / February 21, 2008

Making IT fair in Poland

In Poland in recent years electronic industry has been developing at a very fast rate. This in itself positive for Polish economy development directed attention of NGOs to the working conditions in the electronic factories….

News / February 20, 2008

TV Makers Facing a Toxic Digital Deadline

When the nation’s television spectrum switches from the analog we’re currently using to the digital spectrum of the future, all of our existing analog televisions will go dark. What will happen to the old TVs…

News / February 20, 2008

Gender perspective: Production of Next-Generation Electronics in Poland

makeITfair – a project implemented by number of organizations from EU and developing countries developed a report titled Gender perspective. Production of Next-Generation Electronics in Poland.  The research was conducted from May to July 2007…

News / February 6, 2008

Educational CD: “The Journey of a Computer: From Global Production to Scrapping

Computers are considered to be the allegory of the 21st century: Fancy, flexible, key to the immaterial world of global cyberspace. But a glance behind the stage reveals a very different picture. Single parts of…

News / January 22, 2008

Nokia to shut German plant

Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, said that it would close a factory in Germany and cut about 2,300 jobs as it shifted production to locations with lower costs. The factory in Bochum…

News / January 22, 2008

IBM may sidestep downturn in the US economy

A slowing American economy is not hurting IBM yet. But the strength of the technology giant’s quarterly profit – up 24 percent – may not be as reliable an indicator of broader trends in the…

News / January 16, 2008

Green Apple not quite ripe?

The new MacBook Air – the thinnest notebook computer on the planet -is a strong entry in the race to build a green PC. As a mercury and arsenic free laptop it exceeds European Standards…

News / January 15, 2008

Young consumers are willing to pay more for fair electronics

Amsterdam, 14 January 2008 – Young people are seriously concerned about the social and environmental problems surrounding the production and disposal of their consumer electronics. A majority of young European consumers state that the companies…

News / January 8, 2008

Toxic waste suit filed against IBM

Lawyers for about 90 current and former residents of New York state filed suit against IBM on Thursday alleging that chemicals from an IBM plant have caused congenital heart defects in infants and kidney cancers…

News / January 8, 2008

The Way of a Computer, From Global Production to Scrapping

PC global a project of World Economy, Ecology and Development (WEED) has recently published the new educational CD titled “The Way of a Computer – From global Production to Disposal”. Computers are considered to be…

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