Three Years in the Making: Road to a Fairer Phone
Three years ago, we started Fairphone as a campaign with a simple but lofty goal: to create the world’s first completely fair smartphone. This year's phone is the first step towards…
Our role as a social enterprise in the industry
A post about a conference that our product guy, Miquel, recently attended in Rostock, Germany on "Responsible IT." As I write this post on the train from Rostock to Hamburg, my shirt…
Transparency: a Mission and a Challenge
If you've been living under a Fairphone-less rock: Fairphone's mission is to change the relationship between people and their products, and our vision is an economy based on fairer…
Fairphone Pop-Up Space: London
Will we see you in London next week!? At Fairphone our goal is to open up the systems to discover how our products are made. Lofty goal - but we're doing it step-by-step when building…
Taking Back Phones for a Circular Economy: E-waste in Ghana
Editor's Note: For this week's blog post, our community manager Joe sat down with Bibi (Research and Outreach) to talk about our ambition to address the full life cycle of the phone.…
Defining Sustainable (Choices): Can We Rely on Certification?
Almost one year ago, one week before opening the pre-sales, Bas shared our road map to a "fairer phone." As you all know by now, the pillars in this road map focus on creating a more…
Fairphone 2 pre-orders are now open
As of today, the Fairphone 2 is available for pre-order in our online shop! Everything we’ve been working on over the past year has been leading up to this moment, and we can’t…
Our Choice for Production Partner
Dilemmas, opportunities and what we’ve learned in China Last month, we shared our initial steps to seek a production partner in China. We had significant pre-work to do to identify…
December production update: How production, workforce and delivery are intertwined
As Value Chain Director, I work to increase positive social and environmental impact throughout our product’s value chain, and that’s a pretty long chain, starting with mineral…
This is how cobalt credits are helping mines become fairer
In August 2023, the Fair Cobalt Alliance (FCA) introduced a new sourcing model for the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector called Cobalt Credits. The newly launched system…