Ethical brands are an established phenomena in food and clothes production, but up until now there has been no move to develop the fair trade brand into the phone industry. Enter Fairphone.
Established three years ago as project within media lab called Waag Society (www.waag.org/en), Fairphone has become an independent social enterprise and been developing five areas in which their phone can be seen as fair: conflict-free resources, fair wages, e-waste solutions, transparent pricing and e-waste solutions. They are now a mere 13 person team encompassing eight…
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