It is recommended that you post your original post addressing the topics below (minimum of 250 words), to your classmates’ posts prior to 11:55 ET on Sunday. Your follow-up posts can add additional insight to a classmate’s opinions or can challenge their opinions. Use examples from the readings, or from your own research, to support your views, as appropriate. Include a citation at the bottom of your post, giving credit to the sources you consulted in researching this week’s topic. Be sure to read the follow-up posts to your own posts and reply to any questions or requests for clarification. By the way, include the name of the person’s post you are replying to.
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Make sure you include in-text citations in APA format within the text of your post and a reference list in APA format at the bottom of your post. For examples of APA format, review the pages on “in-text citations” and “reference list” in this tutorial:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Questions:
1. What is e-waste? What is so dangerous about e-waste? Many well-meaning individuals thought that recycling was the answer to the e-waste problem. But why hasn’t e-waste recycling yielded the results hoped for?
2. What are network effects? Think about the kinds of technology products that you own, or websites you use, that are subject to network effects. What sorts of exchange do these products leverage (e.g., information, money, software, or other media)? Give several concrete examples and explain them as clearly as you can in your own words.
3. Find an article online that discusses the problem of e-waste, preferably one that also proposed a solution. In your own words summarize and critique the article. Do you think it is a viable solution? Why or why not? Be sure to include the url to your article.
4. Describe the hardware and software requirements of your chosen information system. Be sure to consider both the server-side and client-side hardware and software. If you do not have access to specific details about the server-side hardware and software, make reasonable assumptions based on the kind of hardware and software that you believe would be necessary to run your system.
Read Chapters 5 and 6 of the textbook:
https://ebooks.apus.edu.ezproxy1.apus.edu/INFO331/Gallaugher_Ch5-6.pdf