Last week saw the launch of a student campaign in Exeter to persuade the University to put pressure on its IT providers to remove conflict free minerals from their supply chains.
We wet told that one university in the UK had agreed to do this, so far - St Andrews (see the story here http://www.thesaint-online.com/2012/07/coalition-for-a-conflict-free-st-andrews-gets-the-go-ahead/) - that other campaigns were underway, and that they were common elsewhere in the world, particularly in the USA (the article mentions Clark University as important).
I'd be interested to hear peoples experiences of conflict-free mineral procurement campaigns and policies at their universities.
Thanks and best wishes
Ian
Ian Cook
Associate Professor of Geography
University of Exeter
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