Geopolitical tensions and the energy transition have thrust the extractive industries into the limelight. The discourse around mining is no longer dormant until an accident happens. Rightly so, as mining drives 45% of the world’s economic activity. The EU’s upcoming...
Tommy Stadlen is a technology entrepreneur and author. He is a former McKinsey consultant, and worked with the Obama for America campaign in 2008 as a policy advisor. We caught up with Tommy in New York to discuss “Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging...
Brendan Murphy and Oseyi Ikuenobe New research by Daniel Franks (Center for Social Responsibility in Mining) and Queensland University and Rachel Davis (Shift) find that delays in world-class mining operations valued between US$ 3 and US$ 5 billion caused by conflict...
Redeyef is a phosphate-mining town close to the border of Algeria, known to be the site of important uprisings in 2008, a foretaste of Tunisia’s 2011 Jasmine revolution. A few weeks ago, Ulula visited local miners to understand and discuss community needs related to...
Antoine Heuty and Cornelius Graubner, January 15, 2014 Over the past ten years, a growing number of philanthropies, think tanks, civil society and grassroots organization have pushed companies to publish what they pay and governments to disclose what they earn form...
Cornelius Graubner and Antoine Heuty This week’s Open Government Partnership Summit, hosted by the government of the UK in London, is the highlight of the Global Transparency Week 2013 and an important marker for the state of the transparency and accountability (T/A)...
