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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 ‘ Responsible Business Challenge’ , which...
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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 to Team 4 Life from Kazakhstan and Team Kiki Phi...
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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 place went to Jonathan Alexander from the University...
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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-IT centres, government organisations and educational...
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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. I am looking forward to your comments to our Social...
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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 has been involved in the UNESCO/HP private public...
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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. We integrate accessibility into our HP products...
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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, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe. To read the...
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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 at the Brussels HP office on September 18-19. As...
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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 experience and provide new insights and learning...
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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) to other countries by providing grid computing...