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您了解手上拿著的手機嗎？您可能知道它不同的先進規格，但對於要將這部輕巧新穎的手機送到您手上的過程，您認識多少呢？

其實，生產（和棄置）一部智慧型手機的過程十分之複雜。很多時候正是因為缺少了這方面的信息，我們會在不知不覺間促使了在手機生命週期衍生的各種問題比如衝突礦業 惡劣的工作環境 以及電子垃圾污染 等等。

由於電子行業缺乏透明度，很多企業沒有受到要負責任的壓力而去改變各種不公平的現狀，導致這些問題仍然存在。

但有一家公司卻有獨出心裁的想法。Fairphone就是一間致力於解決這種資訊透明度不足和其所衍生的不公平問題的社會企業

Fairphone值得一提的亮點包括:

它是透過眾籌的方法來融資，並且是由用戶和電子維修專家共同參與的設計過程

它是一款模組化手機，用家可以直接從官網訂購零件來進行補修或將部份零件升級

他們向工廠的工人支付維生工資，並為工人設立福利基金全權由工人自己選出的代表來管理

他們以負責任方式採購礦產 同時不斷研究和增加在手機中使用回收物料的比例

通過以下連結可以了解更多關於Fairphone如何重新定義公平在經濟發展中的意義：

資料來源:

“Fairphone: Sustainability from the Inside-Out and Outside-In” by Wernink and Strahl

[Information related to Sustainable Development] Create a Fairer World with a Fairer Phone

How much do you know about your phone? You’d probably know about how many cool specs it has, but what about what it takes to have this sleek and light phone delivered to your hands?

The processes that it takes to produce (and dispose) of a smartphone are very complex. Oftentimes, because there’s so little information available about that, we unknowingly contribute to the many problems along the lifecycle of a smartphone such as conflict minerals poor working conditions and e-waste pollution to name a few.

Because of the lack of transparency in the industry, those problems remain as companies don’t feel pressured to change the unfair status quo.

But one company thinks differently. Fairphone is a social enterprise that aims to address the transparency problem and the unfair processes associated with it

Few highlights of Fairphone:

It’s financed through crowdfunding and designed by involving public participation of users and electronic repair guru

It’s a modular phone that allows the customer to tinker and upgrade – with spare parts that they could directly purchase from the official website

They pay workers in the factory a living wage, plus setting up a welfare fund for workers to be managed by the representatives they elected

They source responsibly mined minerals and continue to increase the use of recycled materials in the phones

Read more about how Fairphone is redefining what fair means in the economy here:

Reference:

“Fairphone: Sustainability from the Inside-Out and Outside-In” by Wernink and Strahl