The latest video from Intel's "Look
Inside" series looks inside the offices of
Intel for a solution to mining conflict-free minerals. Intel engineer Carolyn Duran sought to change the way many of the minerals used to
build most pieces of technology are acquired. Some minerals are mined under warlords in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, making conditions for miners unsafe and deadly. Rather than abandon the
region entirely, Duran and her team implemented a conflict-free tracking system over the course of a five-year period. This resulted in a 55% reduction in armed-group profits from tantalum, tungsten
and tin mined in the region, along with the first conflict-free microprocessors available for consumer purchase.
See the video here, created
by
Venables Bell & Partners and directed by
Paul Freedman of
Untitled.
