Equity and Sustainability Flashcards
Common carriage
Can’t discriminate against any user for any reason
Universal access to the internet
Nationalized
Digital Divide
67% online
⅓ of the world does not have access to the internet
People don’t have useful access to internet with slow internet
Last Mile
Hard to get internet to rural communities
Have to build infrastructure to build for the last mile (rural communities) who are small number to provide the infrastructure for
Skills Gap
People using the internet for discrete purposes - not having the skills to use the internet correctly
One Laptop Per Child
Expand internet access to combat the digital divide
Company
2005-2014
Nicholas Negroponte leader of the company
Raised money to create laptops
$100 laptops (last year’s tech)
Didn’t make much of the difference
There was a skills gap since the kids and teacher didn’t know how to use the computers
Project Aquila
Facebook
Sent drones to various countries to give them access to the internet
lightweight
Project Loon
Google project - Alphabet
Only way to become bigger is to get more users
Pilots in New Zealand, Brazil, Kenya, California
2021 shutdown
Starlink
Space X project
Trying to use satellites to spread internet access
7000 satellites
Low orbit, low latency
Over 5 million customers
Military use in Ukraine
Foxconn
Taiwanese Company with factories in China
Largest private employer in China
Makes 70% of the iphones
IPhone City
In Zhengzhou
350,000 employees
Low wages, long hours
Live in dorms
Work in assembly lines 8-10 hours
Work 6 days a week
Recruiting work as young as 16
Placed in locations of poverty
Employees being replaced repeatedly by robots
Samsung
Factories Based in South Korea
Vietnam factories
Women in their 20s workers
High rates of miscarriages
2015- 85 million in compensation for the families
Covid 19- not allowed to leave factories - didn’t stop producing phones
Huge labor force being overshadowed by ads and people don’t often think about it when using the device
Server Farms
Data centers- with huge amount of servers
Not supposed to think about and know they exist
Generate large amount of heat need air conditioning
The cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry
Over 3% of carbon emissions
Consume 20% of global electricity
70% of internet traffic goes through Virginia’s datacenter
E-Waste
Throw away old phones and computers
Selling e-waste
Guiyu, China “e-waste capital of the world
Ghana
Bitcoin Mining
Decode hashes, rewarded with bitcoin
Bitcoin e-waste as much as a mid sized country (Argentina, Poland)
Carbon footprint comparable to Qatar or Greece
Toxic materials
Electronically created
Daisy
Apple’s computer named Daisy
Help recycle old Apple products
