Hotel space is filling up for the EICC Summer Meeting on July 17-19 at Gillette Stadium near Boston, MA.  Please register by July 6 if you plan to attend.  A draft meeting agenda is available here.

Social Events

The meeting will include a tour of Gillette Stadium (home of the New England Patriots) and an outing to Fenway Park to watch the Boston Red Sox vs. the Chicago White Sox.  Only 8 tickets to the game remain available.  Contact Brad Cameron today if you want to attend (ticket and round trip transportation is $50).

Registration

Register for the meeting here.  Attendees are encouraged to register for a room at the Renaissance Boston Hotel & Spa at Patriot Place. All other hotels are located 7-10 miles away from the meeting venue. Hotel registration is available here.

Help Sponsor an Event

The meeting will be hosted by EMC, which is helping to cover some of the costs.  Other members are encouraged to help offset remaining costs for what we anticipate will be the largest and most successful membership meeting to date.  Contact Grant Feichtinger for more information about sponsorship opportunities.

The Compliance Work Group has scheduled webinars to review the 2012 Compliance Program data collection process and template.  The first data collection is July 13, which will cover activity thru June 30.  Pre-populated templates have been distributed to Full Members.

The European Commission has engaged Shift Project to help develop ICT sector guidance for its Guiding Principles.  As a result, Shift hopes to talk to ICT companies about their policies, processes, and systems to address human rights in the supply chain.  EICC companies may consider talking with Shift project on a voluntary basis.
 

The EICC is working with Shift to ensure they understand the EICC tools and resources members can use for supply chain assessment and monitoring (e.g., the Code of Conduct, VAP, and capability building programs).  EICC members may wish to provide Shift researchers with additional company-specific information about their activities to address human rights challenges, or to provide examples of how EICC tools and resources are used to help.  More information can be found here.  Contact George Hodge at Shift to participate or for more information.

ICT Discussion Paper
 

The draft ICT-sector Discussion Paper is also available for comment until June 30. The paper "outlines the key human rights impacts, contextual factors and process challenges raised in stakeholder consultations to date."  Feedback is requested on whether the paper addresses the most serious and likely human rights impacts in the sector, what challenges are faced in addressing human rights impacts, and what practices are best to address the challenges.  Information on the paper and process for submitting feedback is available at here.

The Governance Task Force has scheduled "office hours" to answer questions about the new governance recommendations for EICC.  A recording of the last webinar is available here.  The office hours will be held: 

The tenth Conflict-Free Minerals Supply Chain Workshop will take place in Berlin in September. Join other supply chain participants to ensure responsible sourcing of Tin, Tantalum, Tungsten, and Gold.  A Save-the-Date with additional information is available on the EICC website.