23-08-2010 Speakers tour Procure IT Fair, 10-22 October 2010
23-08-2010
Sustainable procurement of IT hardware is one of the tools to improve working conditions, human rights and envrionmental protection in the global electronics supply chain. The European campaign Procure IT Fair has therefore invited, Pathma Krishnan from the Malaysian NGO Monitoring Sustainability of Globalization to travel throughout Germany, Spain and the Netherlands from 10 to 22 October 2010 and share her practical experience.
In various workshops and lectures she will address the pressing sustainability issues in the IT industry. Krishnan will focus specifically on the Malaysian IT-industry and the role of migrant workers in this sector, showing massive problems with regards to their working conditions.
Preliminary programme of the speakers tour
10 - 14 October - Germany: among others workshop at DEAB in Stuttgart
14 - 19 October - Spain, among others workshop with the city of Manresa
19 - 22 October - Netherlands
- 19 October, 19:30 - 21:30: Lecture "Made in Malaysia" at the Dutch United Nations Study Association in Utrecht, for more information see here
- 20 October, 14:00 - 15:30: Lecture Fair IT, Brussels (Belgium)
- 21 October, 14:00 - 17:30: Lecture at the Leiden University
