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Case Study on Responsible Business Competition

Allow me to draw your attention to our latest Case Study about the Responsible Business Competition , which we every year with Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Europe . The latest addition to the competition is a new application on Facebook, the ‘...

Published 11-23-2009 5:45 PM by ulrikehaug

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

Russian students win HP JA Global Business Challenge Award

Wow! Nearly 1000 students participated in this year`s JA Global Business Challenge and eight teams made it to the final. In the end, the Russian Team Topol-M won the prestigious award, which included a cash prize of US $3,000. Second place was awarded...

Published 11-18-2009 5:38 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: social investment, CSR, JA, HP Global Business Challenge

Winners of 2009 Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award announced

You might have seen my earlier blog entries about our support for the Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award and the video produced by WWF to support the award. Today, I am pleased to share with you the names of the winners of the essay competition! First...

Published 11-04-2009 3:41 PM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: social investment, CSR, Sustainability, Ashridge sustainable innovation award

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

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

New Podcast: Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic from UNESCO talks about partnership on ‘brain drain’

I’d like to invite you to listen to our latest CSR podcast with Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic from UNESCO. Stamenka works in UNESCO’s Division of Higher Education where she is Chief of the Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance. She...

Published 06-30-2009 10:24 AM by ulrikehaug

Filed under: social investment, CSR, UNESCO, podcast

Fight social and environmental exclusion: The e-inclusion Ministerial Conference

At the beginning of December I had the opportunity to participate in the e-inclusion Ministerial and Expo in Vienna, where HP was one of the main sponsors. HP presented our latest accessibility products and showed some great solutions on web accessibility...

Published 12-15-2008 3:11 PM by Daniela.Opp

Filed under: social investment, CSR, GET-IT, EU

Alleviate Brain Drain in Africa

I would just like to link to an interesting article which provides a good overview of the project “Piloting solutions for reversing brain drain into brain gain for Africa” which is a cooperative project of UNESCO and HP to reduce brain drain in Algeria...

Published 09-26-2008 2:59 PM by jeanne2007

Filed under: social investment, CSR, Brain Drain, UNESCO

GET-IT – let’s walk the talk

I am at Brussels airport, flying home after our first annual GET-IT Conference, which was themed around “e-skills development for young entrepreneurs” and I am still very thrilled and excited about the 2 days we have spent together. The event took place...

Published 09-22-2008 4:27 PM by Daniela.Opp

Filed under: social investment, CSR, GET-IT, Social Entrepreneurship

“Win-win” situation: sharing social investment experience between EMEA and Asia Pacific

Today I am reporting on a fantastic opportunity that was offered to me and one of my American colleagues. As part of the career development programme at HP, HP offers employees to take on “stretch assignments”. These are projects which offer additional...

Published 04-14-2008 5:18 PM by BlogArchive

Filed under: social investment, CSR

New podcast: Alleviating brain drain

We recently published a new podcast on our Brain Drain projects with UNESCO (United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural organizations). We partner with UNESCO to reduce the emigration of trained and talented people (students, academics, professionals...

Published 03-20-2008 5:29 PM by BlogArchive