An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity — smartphones, laptops and digital cameras — are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo. With throngs waiting in lines in the last few days to buy the latest iPhone, I’m thinking: What if we could harness that desperation for new technologies to the desperate need to curb the killing in central Africa?.... (Death by Gadget)
The term blood phones refers to the fact that some metals, or conflict minerals, used to make smartphones and other electronic gadgets are sourced from war-torn areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and they help fuel one of the world's deadliest conflicts.... ('blood phones' and 'conflict minerals')
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