Live discussion on the Guardian Sustainable Business website on Thursday 19th January with me, Andrew Simms, Alison Braybrook and Ed Gillespie.
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Unless you are a company, when it is all up for grabs… The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has challenged HM Revenue and Customs to come clean in its dealings with them. In the view of the Chair of the Committee, confidentiality should not be used as a cloak for companies. Whether this is evasion . . . → Read More: Nothing is certain but death and taxes… Guardian Sustainable Business website blog on my predictions for 2012 – regulation will move centre stage. How should the media be regulated? The painful accounts of intrusion into private lives by the newspapers that the Leveson Inquiry has revealed should provoke some government reaction. Is there a danger that ‘good’ journalism will be regulated away in some fashion in the name of protecting privacy? Will some instances of bad behaviour by . . . → Read More: Shredding Reputations The European Commission has published a new strategy on CSR. This is a substantial improvement on the old one which endorsed the weakest kind of voluntary approach. It also begins the process of integrating (and promoting) the principles of the OECD, the ILO and ISO 26000. In fact the fingerprints of ISO 26000 are all . . . → Read More: Commissioning CSR When Wikileaks made its disclosures about the war, the banks’ paymasters – Visa, MasterCard and Paypal – panicked. The decision to deprive Wikileaks of the means to receive money has nearly brought it down. Is this a victory for law and order or the suppression of the right to free speech and a frustration of . . . → Read More: Democracy leaks My new book on ISO 26000 is now out! With a Foreword from Kevin MCKinley, Deputy Secretary-General of ISO and a Preface from Jorge Cajazeira, the Chair of the Working Group that developed the standard, this book provides the background and some deeper insight into the interpretation and implications of ISO 26000, as well as . . . → Read More: Understanding IS0 26000 – a practical approach to social responsibility The BBC is positioning Ed Miliband as anti-business after his call for a new model of business. This is not because of what business has said, as a look at the IOD and CBI websites reveals. The IOD seems to accept that there are good businesses and bad ones. They simply ask for clarity on . . . → Read More: Against business – or against bad business? The Stakeholder Forum has called for accountability to be central to Rio+20. We definitely need a Framework Convention on Accountability. That’s the easy part. And I think it could draw from the consensus, established by ISO 26000, on the crucial issues that any responsible organisation should face – the core subjects and the underlying issues. . . . → Read More: Should Rio+20 focus on accountability? |
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Technology cuts both ways – does that make it neutral?
Technology can facilitate freedom and civil rights. But it can also facilitate oppression. That doesn’t make it neutral, it just means the jury’s still out.
There are a lot of interesting things going on that build on the apparently anarchic style of new technology – at least in California, as April Dembosky’s FT article describes. . . . → Read More: Technology cuts both ways – does that make it neutral?