Labor & Transparency Initiative
Labor & Transparency
"IT Can"
A Leadership Initiative of our Labor & Transparency Program.
IT Can is a multi-stakeholder initiative to document, communicate, and increase the capacity of ICT to advance sustainability, prosperity, and freedom, in the developed and developing world. Read more...
Companies across a variety of sectors continue to face significant supply chain challenges, despite social audits in countries and regions around the globe where governmental interest and/or enforcement institutions are weak. No satisfactory solutions have emerged to offset the problems associated with auditing and community engagement. As United Nations Special Representative John Ruggie and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development prepare to launch their recommendations for corporations related to the arenas of human and labor rights, the requirements demanded of corporations to demonstrate corporate citizenship and capacity building for civil society are changing.
The Labor and Transparency Initiative is engaging a broad set of stakeholders, to explore the power of IT to promote breakthrough solutions on human and labor rights and supply chain transparency. We are examining promising ways to move beyond the limited success of audits to date through:
- Embedment of CSR in factories and corporate culture.
- Harnessing Transparency to drive continuous CSR monitoring and improvement.
- Better worker empowerment in auditing and enforcement of due diligence standards.
Deliverables
- STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE of the key stakeholder opinion leaders - companies, NGOs, activists and experts.
- STAKEHOLDER MAPS that show the complex dynamics among human rights stakeholders, to enable better planning and alliance-building.
- STRATEGIC MEETINGS - one-on-one and small group gatherings that bring together the stakeholders needed each other to advance human rights across the supply chain.
- STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS - introductions and connections to leaders that you can work closely with, to align and advance mutual objectives.
- GENUINE ALLIES - important, both now and in the future, to enhance your influence and credibility across a range of issues.
Who should join?
Senior executives from the corporate and NGO sectors with strategic responsibilities for supply chain labor monitoring, codes of conduct, and stakeholder engagement.
BE INFORMED - PREPARED - CONNECTED - AND INFLUENTIAL on factory labor solutions
Directory
Below is a representative directory of key stakeholders in this issue, most of which we have engaged. Click an entry to visit their website.
NOTE: The stakeholder organizations and individuals shown above does NOT imply any formal association with one another or with Future 500, with the occasional exception that some may be one of our partners.
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