"The first thing to fight against corruption is transparency, " he said, adding that his country was now publishing all mining contracts as part of a new mining code.

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It involves, notably, enforcing the law (in particular laws concerning nature conservation and the mining code), making sites secure, reinforcing the operational capacity of the Congolese Wildlife Authority, reducing commercial poaching, stopping the illicit exploitation of natural resources and strengthening the efforts of peaceful evacuation of illegal occupants of protected areas.

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Around the office, data-mining experiments were given mysterious code names such as Narwhal and Dreamcatcher.

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The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights was established in 2000 as a code of conduct for oil, gas, and mining companies, to maintain the safety of their staff and assets while avoiding human rights violations.

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Krebs was mining a conceptual shift, one in which our dependence on the Internet and networked computers had turned code into the DNA of physical infrastructure.

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