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The following travel blog captures key learnings from our site visit to La Pampa in Madre de Dios, one of Peru’s largest illegal mining sites nestled deep in the Amazonian jungle. Ulula was [...]

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post Impact blog on December 8, 2015. Please find the original post here. Obama’s signature of a U.S. bill enabling the ownership, trade, and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the big questions discussed this year at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) 2015 Convention, the biggest annual gathering of mining professional from all over the [...]

Earlier this year, the Mongolian prime minister initiated an SMS poll to solicit feedback from citizens on how they though the government should stabilize the tugruk, the Mongolian currency. The [...]

During Mining Indaba 2013, Mark Cutifani, now CEO of UK-based mining giant AngloAmerican, declared, “We miss the local communities. In the information age when people can see how others are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]