Toxic Tech: Not In Our Backyard
The fate of large quantities of electronic waste is unknown, according to a Greenpeace report Toxic tech: Not In Our Backyard. Even in regions such as the EU that are subject to tighter regulation, there…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Key Social Impacts of Electronics Production and WEEE-Recycling in China
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Toxic Tech: Not In Our Backyard
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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…
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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…
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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…