Anti-Slavery Push Wins Prize to Tackle Seafood Supply Chain
- Groups to use $250,000 award to develop technology further
- ‘Labor Safe Digital Certificate’ made for seafood suppliers
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Sustainability Incubator and Trace Register, two companies that develop technologies for improving global supply chains, won the $250,000 grand prize in Partnership for Freedom’s challenge to create methods for fighting labor trafficking.
The winners will use the money to support a digital tool that makes it easier for seafood wholesalers to confirm fish hasn’t been caught or processed using unpaid labor, Partnership for Freedom said in an e-mailed statement Monday. The Partnership brings together U.S. government departments and private groups including Humanity United, the social welfare organization started by eBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam.