Is there an ethical mobile phone? some person was asking in a column in Helsingin Sanomat today. “No there is not”, answered Päivi Pöyhönen from Finnwatch , an organization that is interested in how ethically organizations operate. Ms. Pöyhenen axplained that there is no use to try to compare different mobile phone brands, because the components are usually coming from same factories.

The most worrying issue is that circumstances have not got better during last years in these factories.

The story outlines that mobile phones today are far from being ethical, but the things could go better in the following years. Because of activists in theis area companies have also started to have a closer look at ethical issues. The article spurs us to wait for the first fair traid mobile phone.

(article in Helsingin Sanomat, 19 March, 2008, page D2, kysy vain: Onko eettistä kännykkää?)

Tags: ethical, Finnwatch, mobile phone