Fighting social ills with tech: An online registry for reporting conditions of fishing crews at sea, a system to utilise internet reporting to uncover labour exploitation and a mobile platform to look at remittances to combat human trafficking were just some of the other finalists in a global competition to harness technology to identify enslaved workers in supply chains.
NEW YORK: A cellphone tool to survey working conditions of Ghanaian fishermen and a mobile system to collect forced labour data are among the finalists in a global competition to harness technology to identify enslaved workers in supply chains, organisers said.
The contest, Rethink Supply Chains, aims to send a message that efforts to make supply chains transparent and slave-free create market opportunities, said Catherine Chen, director of investments at Humanity United, a non-profit participant in the project.
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