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Fairphone Pop-Up Space: London
Long-Lasting Design 09 September 2013
Will we see you in London next week!? At Fairphone our goal is to open up the systems to discover how our products are made. Lofty goal – but we’re doing it step-by-step when building our own smartphone. So even though our prototype isn’t our finished product, we know that ...
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Production Update: Delivery Timeline
News 05 September 2013
Introduction Time for a big update, guys! In this blog post, I’ll be outlining what we’ve been up to in-office over the summer directly after our pre-order campaign ended June 14, to where we are now, and into the months ahead before the phone will be delivered to our beloved ...
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Social Responsibility: Introducing TAOS Network
Good Working Conditions 16 August 2013
Editor’s Note: At this point in our production process, Fairphone has chosen an independent, third-party social assessment organization to perform an assessment with our factory, A’Hong. In the following blog post, we’ve asked the founder of TAOS to explain their vision for corporate responsibility as this process is undertaken. ...
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What’s in a Life-Cycle Assessment?
Reuse and Recycling 01 August 2013
I suppose some (or most!) of you are concerned about the environmental issues related to the shiny, cool Fairphone-to-be, right? Some of you have already showed specific interest in our carbon, water, or ecological footprint. So I want to take the opportunity to give you an update about what’s ...
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Transparency: a Mission and a Challenge
Unkategorisiert 26 Juli 2013
If you’ve been living under a Fairphone-less rock: Fairphone’s mission is to change the relationship between people and their products, and our vision is an economy based on fairer principles. We’ve chosen to achieve this by making a phone, because we believe that by opening up the supply chain, ...
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Guest Blog: Fair Cables for Fair Electronics
Good Working Conditions 19 Juli 2013
Editor’s Note: This week we have a post from Susanne Jordan of NagerIT, where they have done tremendous work investigating the sourcing of fair electronics. All statements and opinions are author’s own. Before I start writing about fair cables, I should introduce my organization: NagerIT is a private initiative (non-profit), ...
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Adventures in After-Sales
Reuse and Recycling 11 Juli 2013
When Bas first told me that Gabriel and I were going to be in charge of distribution, repair and take back, the first thing I thought was “OK, Gabriel, me and how many more?” Then I realized that the much of product management rested on the shoulders of Miquel ...
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Production Update: Overview of June and July
Long-Lasting Design 28 Juni 2013
On May 14, Fairphone began its one-month crowdfunding campaign. At that stage, we needed at least 5,000 people to pre-order a phone in order to go into production. On June 4, we reached the goal with one week left to spare. Yay! Now, two weeks after the end of ...
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Our role as a social enterprise in the industry
Unkategorisiert 20 Juni 2013
A post about a conference that our product guy, Miquel, recently attended in Rostock, Germany on „Responsible IT.“ As I write this post on the train from Rostock to Hamburg, my shirt is still wet from the a rainy yet wonderful day at the conference for Responsible IT Procurement in ...
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