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John Lewis subscribes to a "responsible sourcing code of practice", is a member of the Ethical Trading Initiative, and is a model of best practice.
Our Sourcing Code could be hard to roll-out if we were not working with family-owned businesses like Palm who - with a long term view - can create a win-win situation for us, them and the environment".
Unilever's Responsible Sourcing Code, for example, has 12 fundamental principles that suppliers need to work towards and report on, developed from legislation on Human Rights, slavery, rights of communities, environmental best practice, OECD guidelines (etc).
"In fact at the time of the survey we had staff members out in the field in Bangladesh actioning our ethical sourcing code, as opposed to just talking about it," she said.
Open sourcing code used across government projects doesn't necessarily mean the policy will require releasing all of the code to the public — think of it as semi-open — but even a portion of that code, an amount not specified will be open sourced to the public too, where presumably it could drive interesting use cases and even new businesses.
But giving back doesn't just have to mean giving money or stock to non-profits, it can also be giving more intangible things to the community whether that's open sourcing code or in the case of TechCrunch, holding geeky movie screenings and creating an award ceremony called The Crunchies we co-host with our biggest competitors.
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