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Barcelona - 19 February 2019 2.00 h

Exploitation in the tech industry uncovered

- Barcelona

The Mo­bile So­cial Con­gress (not to be con­fused with the anti-Mo­bile World Con­gress or the so­cial­ist side of con­gress) is com­ing to Barcelona next week hell bent on pro­mot­ing cit­i­zen aware­ness. This is to be the fourth ever Mo­bile So­cial Con­gress and is to focus on the work­ing con­di­tions and en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact of the elec­tron­ics in­dus­try.

“We want to de­nounce labour ex­ploita­tion and the ex­ploita­tion of nat­ural re­sources stem­ming from this preda­tory model of pro­duc­tion and tech­no­log­i­cal con­sump­tion,” said Laia Far­gas, mem­ber of the NGO Setem Cat­alo­nia which is or­ga­niz­ing the event. The title of the event Es­clavatge 2.0. De la mina a l’abo­cador (Slav­ery 2.0: from the mine to the dump) sends a clear mes­sage about the ob­jec­tives of the event, which in­clude: adopt­ing a global per­spec­tive on the pro­duc­tion and con­sump­tion chain through round table talks, work­shops and the pro­jec­tion of a doc­u­men­tary at the Pati Man­ning in Barcelona on March 26 and 27 in the af­ter­noons.

These events will ex­plore how work­ing con­di­tions rem­i­nis­cent of slave labour ap­pear in fac­to­ries in Eu­ro­pean coun­tries like Hun­gary and the Czech Re­pub­lic as well as in China. There will also be pre­sen­ta­tions on re­pair­ing and re­cy­cling elec­tronic prod­ucts and data pro­tec­tion.

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