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Fairphone earns B Corporation Certification
Unkategorisiert 26 Mai 2015
Updated on 17 July 2017: Two years after earning our certification, we’re happy to say that last June we got recertified by the B Lab and are proud to continue being a member of the growing B Corp community! View the full report. It’s official! We’re proud to announce that ...
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Designing the next Fairphone from the inside out
Long-Lasting Design 13 Mai 2015
The process of developing a new product such as a smartphone is a complex one, and with our next Fairphone we wanted to stretch our design ambitions further to better align with our objectives of what a fairer phone could be. To create a smartphone that matched our goals, we ...
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To the Fairphone community – Thank You!
Unkategorisiert 28 April 2015
This one goes out to all Fairphone owners, community members, followers, fanatics, critics and pledgers. Here’s to all of you who have pushed the Fairphone journey forward. We owe every one of you an enormous thank you for believing that we could make a change. With you behind us, we’re ...
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Fairphone moves office
News 16 April 2015
After a year and a half of searching and months of putting up with a very squishy office due to our increasing number of employees, we finally did it. We piled our belongings into a truck and moved into Fairphone’s new home. Marco from our IT team packs up the ...
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Social Assessment Program begins at our manufacturer Hi-P
Good Working Conditions 08 April 2015
In October 2014, four team members of TAOS, our assessment partner, visited the facilities of Hi-P, the production partner for the next Fairphone. They spent three days on factory walkthroughs, numerous document reviews and interviewing workers in both the factory’s cafeteria and a private meeting room. Read an update to ...
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Guest blog: Latest news on Ghana e-waste collection program
Reuse and Recycling 26 März 2015
To refresh your memory, Closing the Loop partnered with Fairphone early in 2013 to help us carry out a project to reduce electronic waste, particularly in Africa. We’ve started by collecting scrap phones in the surrounding Accra area of Ghana, which includes Agbogbloshie, one of the most toxic e-waste ...
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Looking for an open operating system at Mobile World Congress 2015
Long-Lasting Design 17 März 2015
Mobile World Congress (MWC), the biggest event in the mobile industry, took place the first week of March in Barcelona, Spain, with 90,000 attendees from 200 countries. The site spanned eight large conference halls, which felt like walking from one airport terminal to another, where a brisk walk from ...
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The search for responsibly sourced gold for the Fairphone
Fair Materials 11 März 2015
Every smartphone contains dozens of different minerals, including precious metals such as gold. Our roadmap for mining involves responsibly sourcing minerals, starting with the four internationally recognized conflict-minerals: tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold. We started our journey toward responsible mineral sourcing by integrating conflict-free tin and conflict-free tantalum from the ...
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Host an Urban Mining Workshop
Unkategorisiert 02 März 2015
Fairphone invites you to grab your helmets and put on your safety goggles because we’re going urban mining. We’ve been conducting Urban Mining Workshops and they’ve been such a success, that we want to pass the tools over to you. Our Urban Mining Manual is now available for free ...
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