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Guest post by Lea Esterhuizen. Lea is a social research methodologist and founder of &Wider. The blog post first appeared on the Ethical Supply Chains Blog on Friday, April 15. Click here for [...]

This blog post first appeared on the ICT Works blog on December 21, 2015. Click here for the original. With the landmark UN Sustainable Development Summit over, the discussion is now shifting to [...]

Robert Solow, economist at MIT and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1987, once famously noted that one “can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Today, a similar [...]

Linda Papagallo (Ulula) and Caitlin Pierce (Namati) In recent years, conflicts over land rights have attracted much attention, as large-scale land deals in Africa and elsewhere have become [...]

When it comes to data, does size matter? Small data is beautiful because it captures simple and granular information that can drive practical solutions to localized challenges. Big data leverages [...]

An ever-increasing number of companies use “pulse surveys” – frequent, real-time staff polls powered by digital technology – to gauge how happy and engaged their employees are. Reconfiguring [...]

The explosive increase in sustainability reporting over the past ten years and the creation of supporting sustainability standards have been important achievements, but the they have yet to [...]

Technology innovation that allows for rapid and repeatable collection of aerial image and sensor data, such as drones and micro-satellites, is rapidly opening opportunities for more systematic [...]

A new report by FSG on Extracting with Purpose – Creating Shared Value in the Oil and Gas and Mining Sectors sheds new light on the rising costs of value lost from weak social and [...]