There has been a disturbing movement in sustainability investing lately that went somehow unnoticed.  After being key drivers of ESG and environmental responsibility, seeking to pressure corporations to adopt more transparent metrics on their environmental, social and government practices, many American investors pulled back from their own sustainable investment commitments in the first quarter this year.

In this podcast, David Daoud of Compliance Standards looks at the motives of the groups that are on the opposite sides of the ESG debate.

Has the war in #Ukraine deter #Russia from engagement in #Africa? Certainly not! We know that on the #security front, a growing number of #African states are turning to Russia to supply them with #military equipment and security services, judging by the presence of official and non-government outfits like the #Wagner Group. Things are evolving very rapidly on that front in 2023 and weapons sales to Africa are likely to further increase this year, despite Russia needing all the military hardware it can procure to execute its war on Ukraine. But many analysts have dismissed Russia as an economic partner for Africa. Perhaps that’s not necessarily true.

#Russia’s influence in the #Africa in general, and in the #Sahel in particular, is about to expand further with more cooperation deals announced by many, including #Niger and #Russia during the ongoing visit to #Moscow of Niger’s Prime Minister and other senior officials. Speaking to #Russian media, Niger’s Defense Minister Salifou Mody said joint projects are being finalized during the visit, following months of preparation and

On the 20th of December 2023 Jared Paben of @EScrapNews and David Daoud of Compliance Standards LLC held a prediction session on what's ahead for the IT asset disposition section, also known as #ITAD. The analysts looked at factors that could influence the performance of the industry and concluded that we should probably not expect a lot to take place in the first half of 2024, but things should heat up in the second half, and more precisely starting as late as mid-November. So patience and endurance will be require for ITAD vendors that really want to thrive in the years ahead.

On 13 December 2023 @Intel held an event in New York to make its case about its "#AI

I have the pleasure of hosting tech analyst Bob O’Donnell with us today. Bob is the president and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research, which is celebrating this week its 10th anniversary. Bob has been included several times in the AR Insight’s top-10 list of most influential analysts, with his broad coverage of technology.  As the recycling industry and the IT asset disposition sector in particular look at 2024 and beyond, there is no shortage of issues they will confront, including how to think about the evolution of

There has been great progress toward environmental accountability in US enterprises, with major accomplishments taking place between the early 2000s with the then Green IT debate, to today as companies are pledging to strengthen their adoption of a Circular Economy strategy as part of their Environmental, Social, and governance posture or ESG. In this analysis (and podcast), David Daoud of Compliance Standards LLC discuss ITAD adoption in US organizations.