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The OAASIS Project
Open Analysis to Address Slavery in Supply Chains
Modern Slavery is big business. It affects around 40 million people. That’s more than ever before. Slaves are cheaper than ever before, yet a slave can make thousands of dollars for whoever controls their labour.
Our aims
Our ultimate aims are to change the mindset and culture of global supply chain operators so that modern slavery becomes unthinkable in the modern world; and to change the mindset of consumers so that producers are no longer rewarded for inaction on modern slavery.
Towards this end we will develop learning experiences to fill two identified producer knowledge gaps:
- What is a supply chain and how do I trace it
- What is modern slavery and how do I address it?
The aims of stage one and two of the project are to develop metrics on modern slavery in the supply chain and provide a proof of concept data visualisation in a virtual reality (VR) environment.
At stage three we will take that VR data visualisation and develop learning experiences to address the identified producer knowledge gaps.
VR is a medium with the power to change minds. It can promote greater empathy than any other form of pre-recorded experience.
Our research
Darian McBain and Joy Murray
Our work poses several research challenges: data challenges around suitable and reliable metrics; technical ones around data harmonisation and insertion into the global trade framework; supply chain visualisation driven by global trade and modern slavery data; and integration of supply chain visualisation and on-the-ground materials into a VR environment.
Stage one of the project will develop modern slavery supply chain metrics for insertion into the powerful Eora economic trade database; and a proof of concept visualisation of global supply chain data.
Stage two will combine bottom-up local data and top-down global data on modern slavery to drive a VR environment.
Stage three (outside of this current research project) will draw on the expertise and creativity of educational designers, creatives and learning experts to convert VR material driven into a learning tools that draw on local and global data. These will tools will be suitable for producers and consumers in civil society and school education settings.
VR is a medium with the power to change minds. It can promote greater empathy than any other form of pre-recorded experience. A unique aspect of the proposed work will be to look at low-cost VR solutions for use in low-income countries.
Our People
Joy Murray (ISA)
Joss Bland-Hawthorn (SIfA)
Arunima Malik (ISA)
Manfred Lenzen (ISA)
Arne Geschke (ISA)
Takako Wakiyama (ISA)
Jorge Gómes-Paredes, Andes Director, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) (also Duke University, USA & Yachay Tech University Ecuador)
Julia De Sterke
Background research into Modern Slavery policy & current uses of VR in learning
Our Team
Initial team meeting. Members (left to right) Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Arne Geschke; Alix Evans; Joy Murray; Carolyn Kitto; Arunima Malik; Darian McBain; Fuzz Kitto
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