The tech tools that led to the 'conflict minerals' provision of the 2009 Dodd-Frank Act can now be used to help attact the problems the law is designed to solve - conflict and corruption in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Eliot Pence outlines how mobile phones, apps, tech-supported citizen action and user-generated imagery provide different avenues for the Congolese to generate more information and data that might better inform the debate. Many companies have been unable to determine whether they were sourcing conflict minerals, and those that have made the effort have found compliance could quickly be reversed if the conflict changes course. A new approach that leverages information from the ground from individuals working within the minerals trade is necessary - and possible.
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