Mining is a temporary activity, with mines operating from anywhere between a few years and a few decades. Increasingly, however, what happens after a mine is closed, and the impact this has on the local community and environment, has an important influence on the competitiveness of the mining operation.

Around the world, small and medium-sized enterprises are a vital engine of innovation and job creation. Therefore, understanding the real challenges and opportunities shaping the future of SMEs, is a matter of the highest importance.

What changes when there is more gender equality? That is the question that we are invited to reflect upon during this year's International Women's Day (8 March). Picture it, says UN Women, empowering women means empowering humanity.

Engaged in the fight against copyright piracy and counterfeit standards, the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) has successfully dismantled a number of nefarious online networks, ensuring standards users get the real McCoy. Mr. Guo Hui (SAC) and Nicolas Fleury (ISO/CS) tell us more.