The pandemic might cut down e-waste but widen the digital divide
Scrap dealers retrieve copper from discarded electric and computer cables to sell at a roadside stall in Mumbai on March 21, 2021. | Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images
We now have evidence that staying home to game or stream and chill during the pandemic was pretty much a first-world problem (or privilege, depending on how you look at it). The proof is in a new report published today by the United Nations University and UN Institute for Training and Research that looks at... Читать дальше...
