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GET-IT Networking conference: Immersive Learning!

This was just so amazing and very rewarding. On 16 and 17 October we held our second GET-IT networking conference in Cairo, Egypt. The conference was hosted by the Ministry of ICT in the ‘smart village’. We had representatives from 80 GET...

Published 10-22-2009 12:24 PM by Daniela.Opp

Filed under: social investment, CSR, GET-IT, entrepreneurship, MEA-I, UNIDO

Nigerian team selected as winners of HP Responsible Ideas Contest in Africa

You might remember previous blog entries about the 2009 Responsible Business Competition that we’re running with Junior Achievement (JA) Africa . The latest milestone of this initiative is the selection of the winner of the African Responsible Ideas...

Published 10-12-2009 4:41 PM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: social investment, entrepreneurship, Africa, JA-YE, Responsible Business Competition

Conference on 'Arab Women in Science and Technology' in Dubai

It is always very rewarding to get insights into different cultures and to learn from them. Last week I had the opportunity to present at the first women´s conference of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation in Dubai. The conference should...

Published 10-07-2009 3:39 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: GET-IT, entrepreneurship, Dubai

Social Investment: What do we do?

On this blog we always give you updates on our programme achievements. We decided to bring these updates together in a short article, to give you a great overview of our social investment approach and our main programmes. Click here to read the article...

Published 09-14-2009 12:34 PM by Daniela.Opp

Filed under: social investment, CSR, entrepreneurship, Education, economic development

Lithuanian Student Company wins HP Responsible Business Award – my weekend in Rotterdam

For the fourth consecutive year, we awarded the ‘ HP Responsible Business Award’ to a student company in Europe last weekend. This year’s winner is the Lithuanian student team Greblys Company, which won the award for their environmental...

Published 07-09-2009 11:52 AM by Daniela.Opp

Filed under: social investment, entrepreneurship, JA-YE, Education, HP Responsible Business Award, HP Business Ideas Contest

GET-IT: Africa highlights

I have already written a couple of entries about our Graduate Entrepreneurship Training in IT (GET-IT) Programme . Since its launch in 2007 we have opened up 100 centres in 30 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa and have already trained more than...

Published 06-17-2009 10:51 AM by Daniela.Opp

Filed under: social investment, GET-IT, entrepreneurship, Africa, Global Citizenship Bulletin

GET-IT programme extended to e-learning portal and new centres

Today, we officially launched the latest component of our Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT ( GET-IT ) programme, which is a web portal called GET-IT City ! We also announced our 2009 plans to extend the programme to an additional 30 training...

Published 11-13-2008 9:05 AM by Daniela.Opp

Filed under: Web 2.0, GET-IT, entrepreneurship, e-learning, graduate training

Today is Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day which this year is dedicated to Poverty. Bloggers around the world have signed up to blog about this important and comprehensive topic. Three bloggers, Collis Ta'eed, Leo Babauta and Cyan Ta'eed, launched Blog Action Day...

Published 10-15-2008 12:11 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: Web 2.0, GET-IT, entrepreneurship, poverty

We need social entrepreneurs and social intrapreneurs

I have invited my colleague Ulrike Haug to share some thoughts around an interesting report she read on social intrapreneurship. Regards, Jeannette We need social entrepreneurs and social intrapreneurs I am sure all of you have already come across the...

Published 09-03-2008 1:04 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: CSR, GET-IT, WWF, entrepreneurship

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