# Demand a fair trade cell phone

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxExeter
- Speaker: Bandi Mbubi
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Engineering, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/bandi_mbubi_demand_a_fair_trade_cell_phone)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past — tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on his personal story, activist and refugee Bandi Mbubi gives a stirring call to action.

## Lectures

1. [Demand a fair trade cell phone](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/bandi_mbubi_demand_a_fair_trade_cell_phone/210d61fae25a), 10 min (TED's player)