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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
All 26 July 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 July 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 July 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 June 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
All 20 June 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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Fairphone at European Parliament
All 13 June 2013
Last Monday, Fairphone attended a conference at the European Parliament. The conference was about a possible European law on responsible sourcing in conflict areas (that is: a law intended to propel companies to contribute positively to development and stability in conflict areas). This is quite an achievement as there was ...
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Design Bootcamp: Results
Long-Lasting Design 12 June 2013
Update: Waag Society has created a booklet covering the entire span of the three-day Fairphone Open Design Bootcamp. It can be downloaded here (pdf). This blog post was written with a major contribution by Astrid van Roij-Lubsen, Concept Developer at Waag Society. The Fairphone Design Bootcamp was organized by her ...
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Fairphone Design Bootcamp: A Designer’s Perspective
Long-Lasting Design 10 June 2013
Editor’s Note: I asked designer Maarten Hertog to give his personal account of last weekend’s Fairphone Design Bootcamp. Expect a full overview of the workshop’s results in our next post. To clarify: this will NOT change the design of this year’s phone. – Joe Mier, FP Community Manager A Fairphone ...
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