I would like to draw your attention to an article by our Supply Chain Social and Environmental Responsibility Manager Zoe McMahon, who talks about corporations’ accountability for minerals sourced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). You can access the article here . Non-governmental organisations...
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...
A few months ago, WWF published a HP-supported white paper called ‘From Green IT to Greening with IT’. The paper is directed mainly at policy makers and aims to explore the role of IT in business and government strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It particularly looks...
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...
When we talk about working conditions in global supply chains, we often think of the human rights and labour issues in Asian factories that dominate the media. But what about working conditions in Europe? The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work conducted a survey among European workers focusing...
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...
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...