The idea was to use a unified database to make sure that different programs, say for financial planning or human resources, worked with the same information.

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There are islands of database, but no unified view of corporate data.

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The fund would serve as a unified clearinghouse that would collect payments from brands and maintain a transparent database of injured and dead workers, said Tessel Pauli of the Amsterdam-based Clean Clothes Campaign, which is among the groups working to create the fund.

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