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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply chain is safely tucked behind the firewall, operating on data that is late and out of sync with the market. With strong Indian outsourcing capabilities, they are pushing the automation of processes through labor arbitrage strategies for cheap labor for manual data manipulation. Yet, the supply chain organization cannot see.

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Circular Economy in ICT – Completing the circle of supply

EcoVadis

Bringing Circular Economy (CE) into the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry effectively targets two major fields: products and equipment (waste and consumption) and internal operations and networks (energy and data). Accordingly, the industry will be responsible for 1.25Gt CO2e in 2030, or 1.97

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

China’s low prices have historically undercut global prices and pushed out foreign competitors –– such as the Mountain Pass mine in California, which closed in 2002. The lack of reporting and standardised data collection. . Since the 1990s, China has supplied the lion’s share of the world’s demand for REEs.