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California Global Corporate Accountability Project
Resources Relating to the Information Technology Sector
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
A public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society.
- Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network
Joint Venture is a non-profit regional collaborative established to enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in Silicon Valley.
- Semiconductor Industry Association
The Semiconductor Industry Association is the leading trade association representing the computer chip industry. The mission of the SIA is to provide leadership for U.S. chip manufacturers on the critical issues of trade, technology, environmental protection and worker safety and health. Check out their Environmental Health and Safety section for a description of their priorities.
- Silicon Valley Cultures Project
The Silicon Valley Cultures Project is a ten year ethnographic study of the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of Silicon Valley. The project is being conducted by the San Jose State University's Anthropology Department.
- Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group's publications
The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group is a proactive voice for Silicon Valley businesses. They have successfully tackled some of the toughest challenges facing high-tech employers and their employees by working with government to find innovative solutions to issues like transportation, housing,
permit streamlining, education, and the environment.
- Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC)
SVTC is a diverse grassroots nonprofit organization consisting of environmental and neighborhood groups, labor unions, public health leaders, people affected by toxic exposure and others. Their core values include a commitment to the practice of social justice and multiracial democracy.
- South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council
The South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council is the central body of labor organizations in Silicon Valley. More than 110 unions, representing about 100,000 people, belong to the council. The council is a key player in a number of Bay Area labor/community partnerships, including Silicon Valley@work and Working Partnerships, USA.
- Washington Alliance of Technology Workers
WashTech is an organization of high-tech workers and allies joining together to provide an effective voice in the legislative and corporate arenas, and to advocate for improved benefits and workplace rights.
- Clean Computer Campaign Annual Report Card of The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. The report card, released in December 2000, grades the companies' performance on 8 key indicators in an effort to answer the following question:--Are high-tech companies providing consumers with enough information to make informed decisions about buying a "green" electronic product?
- Researchers at Resources for the Future developed a framework to evaluate the novel air permit granted to the Intel Corporation as part of EPA’s Project XL. In their analysis, researchers describe the permit’s impact on environmental quality, production costs, transaction costs, and Intel’s strategic market position.
- Mazurek, Jan, 1998. Making Microchips: Policy, Globalization, and Economic Restructuring in the Semiconductor Industry
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Microchips, unlike automobiles, are resource intensive - when sold, they contain very few of the raw materials used to manufacture them. According to Jan Mazurek, "the computer microchip industry's clean outward appearance and clean image tends to eclipse its glaringly poor environmental record." Mazurek's excellently researched work shows how reorganization and relocation of manufacturing facilities divert attention from trends in toxic emissions and how they complicate public and private efforts to improve the industry's environmental performance.
- Campaign for Responsible Technology
CRT is an international network initiated by the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. It is a diverse network of organizations and environmental, worker/labor safety and health, economic development and social justice activists who have come together to promote broader grassroots participation in the design and development of new technologies as the high-tech industry races forward into an increasingly dominant global position. We have a list-serve to share experiences, struggles, strategies, and technical information by increasing communication among people who are concerned about the impacts of high-tech development.
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