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The truth behind Apple’s supplier report
Since Apple released their 2013 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report in January, everyone has had a bit of time to inspect it. As always, Apple reports progress and displays compliance figures of eighty or ninety percent for some hot issues, such … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, china, goodelectronics, manufacturing, report
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The grim situation of migrant workers in Malaysia
While the bad conditions in electronics factories in China have received some attention – supplier names like Foxconn or Yonghong come to mind – Malaysia is another popular outsourcing location of the global electronics giants. How popular? SOMO has just … Continue reading
Quick review of Nager-IT’s fair mouse
It’s been over a month since the German non-profit Nager-IT announced that the first partially-fair computer mouse was available for sale. I promised then to deliver a review as soon as I get my hands on a specimen. I’ve been … Continue reading
Nager-IT announces availability of partially fair mouse
The German project Nager-IT have been working on building a fair mouse. Recently, they have announced the availability of their first model. To my knowledge, this is the first piece of partially fair, consumer-oriented hardware that you can readily buy. … Continue reading
(Partially) FairPhone to arrive in Fall 2013
You may be familiar with FairPhone, a Dutch NGO with the goal of producing the world’s first ethical smartphone. While the initiative has kept a fairly low profile so far, it appears that quite a bit has been going on … Continue reading
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Tagged cfti, fairphone, netherlands, product, smartphone
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