Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition
EICC Weekly Bulletin 
April 9, 2009
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Please contact the following EICC staff at AMS for information or assistance.  They can be reached by phone at 202-457-8404


Operations: John Flatley
Communications: Brad Cameron
Membership Services: Carrie Hoffman or Grant Feictinger
Greetings!
Welcome to our fist EICC Weekly Bulletin.  The Bulletin will be emailed to EICC members every Thursday to provide updates on Board and workgroup activities.  It will also be used to keep members informed about news, events, and other information that affects our industry.
 
Please submit information you want to share with EICC members to Grant Feichtinger by 2 PM EDT on Tuesdays.  Submissions should include:
  • A title
  • A detailed summary in the first 2 sentences
  • Contact information (which will be published)
 
From the Board
The Board approved the following requests this week:
  • Proposal from the E-TASC Work Group to retain an IT expert who will help develop specs and sourcing for E-TASC 2.0.  An agreement was reached with GeSI to help fund this effort.
  • Proposal from AMS to reorganize the SharePoint website and transfer it to a dedicated server.  The Communications Work Group will provide input on the reorganization.
  • Proposal from the Environmental Work Group to engage Business for Social Responsibility.  BSR will help with the group's carbon reporting initiative.

The Board is also:

  • Planning the May 6 meeting in Amsterdam (with webinar).
  • Helping coordinate EICC/GeSI participation in the May 7-8 "makeITfair" event in Amsterdam.
  • Identifying a date and US location for the September EICC membership meeting.
 
Working Hours Awareness
The Working Hours Task Force is conducting a confidential survey of commodity managers.  The survey will determine levels of awareness about socially responsible practices related to work hours, and about the potential impact this has on work hours policies by suppliers.  Participation in the survey is voluntary, but we hope to achieve a high participation rate to ensure statistically valid data.
 
 
Commodity Manager eLearning Release
The Learning & Capability Building Work Group is planning to release the Commodity Manager eLearning training module.  The module will be free for EICC members, and will be accessible from a link on the EICC webpage, or as a download from the EICC SharePoint.  Instructions will be provided to interested members who want to download and run the training module on their internal learning management systems (LMS).  Please identify one person, preferably from your training department, who will receive the training instructions for your company.  Send the name of your contact to Grant Feichtinger by Friday, April 24.
 
 
Supplier Management Training Examples Needed  
The L&CB Work Group is also finalizing the Supplier Management eLearning training.  Additional examples are needed to explain how management systems can help improve social responsibility and capability by suppliers. If you have information to share please forward it to Hong Ling.
 
"Conflict Minerals" Legislation in Congress
Legislation will be introduced in Congress later this month that would require electronics firms to track use of minerals and metals used in their products.  The legislation is intended to address the use of mines in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to fund war and other atrocities.  A small working group of EICC, GeSI, CEA, and ITI members has been formed to review the bill and offer input.  The group spoke today with staff to US Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) about the Senator's bill, and will follow up.  More details will be provided in the next Bulletin.  For more information contact Brad Cameron.
 
Save the Date  
Two information webinars for the Commodity Manager eLearning module will be conducted for anyone interested in using the tool.  The first session will be held April 28th at 3:00PM GMT, and the second will be held April 30th at 2:00AM GMT.  More information about these webinars will be included in the next Bulletin.