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The Cassiterite Crisis - How Tech Boom Fuels Human Rights Risk in Africa

A disturbing article this week in the FT reports how cassiterite sourced through the use of child and slave labour has made it into the supply chains of global electronic goods manufacturers. Cassiterite is a derivative of tin ore necessarily used in circuitry and its use has, ironically, enabled...

Tags: Cassiterite, Enterprise Software, James Farrar, Management, Microsoft Corp., Safety Condition, Software, Strategy, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Blog posts 2008-03-07

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US Congress Ready to Act on Human Rights Crisis in Tech Industry Supply Chains

Following on from yesterday's riff on traceability technology for Vietnamese fisheries, it turns out Silicon Valley may yet be its own best customer. Despite common knowledge of serious human rights abuses relating to the mining of cassiterite in the Democratic Republic of Congo the industry has not gone far enough to guarantee...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Accounting, James Farrar, Mineral, Software, Supply Chain Management (SCM), U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2009-05-21

IBM & FXA Helping Assure Safety of Vietnam Seafood Exports

IBM's vision of a smart planet is proving to be an interesting intellectual platform from which to invite all actors to think how best to improve sustainability performance with smart use of IT. Yesterday's announcement hat tip James of a partnerhsip between IBM, FXA Group, the Vietnam Association...

Tags: Crisis Management, Farm, Food, Food & Beverage, IBM Corp., Ireland, James Farrar, Management, Manufacturing, Meat, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-20

A bloody connection to the Congo in every pocket . . .

We live in a global community where there is little happening in the world that we aren't all connected with in some way. The current global financial crisis underlies that point but also, the bloody conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The "civil war" that has...

Tags: Civil War, Mineral, Capacitor, Cell Phone, Congo, Coltan, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-03

HP CSR Report: A Triumph for Transparency (but back slides on blogging)

Ground breaking stuff in HPs latest CSR report released last week - HP becomes the first in its sector to publish details of the major players in its supply chain. Now it seems the tech sector will follow the apparel industry on supplier transparency. The apparel industry tried to resist this for...

Tags: Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard Co., Supplier, Blogging, Nothing, Channel Management, Marketing, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-04-16

News to know: Facebook; Vista; See-through screens; Sun patch

Notable headlines: Garett Rogers: The Google Apps Appliance would make Microsoft sweat Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft tries to stop more 'Vista-capable' e-mails from going public Vista Ultimate team releases new discounts, but no new freebies yet Microsoft DeepZoom + PhotoZoom...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Government, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-10

The Cassiterite Crisis - How Tech Boom Fuels Human Rights Risk in Africa

The Cassiterite Crisis - How Tech Boom Fuels Human Rights Risk in Africa...The corps don't care how or at what cost, so long as they get their profits up. There are atrocities around the world all in the name of greed and profit. While I personally don't condone these behaviors...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, Congo, Cassiterite Crisis

Discussion threads 2008-03-08