The previous post basically took MIT SustainAble City Labs and E-Stewards to task for the ill-conceived GPS tracking study that succeeded, mostly, in elevating negative stereotypes about both scrappers and tech sector workers in emerging markets.
Basel Action Network is trying to monetize tracking of unwitting, unwilling subjects. I just hope MIT will eventually do the right thing and apologize for its role in using undergraduate students to place tracked devices, disguised as repairable (and in some cases WERE repaired), and associating legitimate overseas technicians with "rice paddies" and "shantytowns".
Now for the positive, forward looking alternative, the Fair Trade Recycling vision.
We are going to be card counters at the blackjack table...
And here is a paid Fair Trade Recycling Internship post to bring us there (please repost).
I call it CryptoCurrencyBall...
Basel Action Network is trying to monetize tracking of unwitting, unwilling subjects. I just hope MIT will eventually do the right thing and apologize for its role in using undergraduate students to place tracked devices, disguised as repairable (and in some cases WERE repaired), and associating legitimate overseas technicians with "rice paddies" and "shantytowns".
Now for the positive, forward looking alternative, the Fair Trade Recycling vision.
"Your goal shouldn't be to buy players. Your goal should be to buy wins... I believe there is a championship team that we can afford, because everyone else undervalues them." Peter Brand, MoneyballWe are working to fly 2 of the brightest LED/LCD/Plasma display techincians I have met in Ghana over the past 4 years to Middlebury, Vermont, to train and interract with Good Point Recycling staff. We sent 2 student interns to work with one of those technicians under the Fair Trade Recycling "e-Waste Ambassadors" program last summer (Middlebury College and U of Florida).
We are going to be card counters at the blackjack table...
And here is a paid Fair Trade Recycling Internship post to bring us there (please repost).
I call it CryptoCurrencyBall...
