Will we ever be able to buy a fair-trade smartphone? - New Scientist
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“In the DRC, there have been 4 million deaths in the last 10 years: there’s a relationship between phones and that problem,” says Bas van Abel, founder of FairPhone, a Dutch initiative. By working with communities in the DRC and online, Fairphone hopes to design what it believes will be the world’s first cellphone that will be both open-source and responsibly manufactured.