Apprise Audit

About Apprise Audit

The objective of the Apprise Audit app is to empower workers to have their voices heard during social audits, thereby increasing the chances of identifying possible exploitation through a standardised process.

The app is straightforward and relatively simple to use. During an audit:
- The auditor logs in on the app on a device(s) and chooses a questionnaire.
- Selected workers take the interview autonomously, leaving the auditor the time to carry on with other parts of the audit.
- Workers can listen to audio yes/no questions in their own language by selecting a flag representing their country, and provide answers.
- All the responses are logged and tabulated against forced labor vulnerability indicators. A summary – as well as a detailed report – is displayed at the end of the interviews for the auditor to act on.

Being able to collect multiple workers’ feedback in a timely and cost-effective way gives auditors access to a more representative sample than one-to-one interviews. The privacy and confidentiality offered by the app encourages workers to indicate issues – especially migrants, who are often excluded from the process because they don’t speak the country’s language. The app highlights potential red flags in a consistent way, eliminating the need for personal judgment or interpretation. This will increase the chances of prompt follow-up action by brands towards suppliers, including corrective action plans and remediation/compensation where applicable, aimed at improving labour conditions. Finally, the data stored in the company’s server can be easily analysed and compared – for example, between competing factories or between audits conducted in the same factory over a certain period, helping brands identify trends and make more informed sourcing decisions.

Apprise Audit has been developed by Mekong Club & the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society. To use the app, please contact [email protected]

This software is released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike-IGO License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo/)