Corporate Social Responsibility
38 Stories
Netizens driving firms' social responsibility
News Online communities increasingly driving corporate social responsibility in Asia-Pacific, but governments still hold most sway, finds new study.
Tags: Green IT, Web 2.0, Corporate responsibility, Hewlett-Packard Co., Asia, India, Asia-Pacific, Europe, corporate governance, Corporate Social Responsibility
Philippine govt anxious over Intel's potential exit
News Local Cavite government wants to hold talks with the chipmaker regarding the possibility that Intel may shut its test and assembly facility in the Philippine province.
Tags: Processors, Investments, Local Government, Intel Corp., Philippines, Chip Company, Government, microprocessor, Worker, Corporate Social Responsibility
Green IT--how CIOs can help
Insight perspective IT has a key role to play in making businesses more energy efficient. An analyst shares how.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Green IT, Quocirca, Energy Usage, CIO, IT budget, energy efficiency, marketing, International Energy Agency
IBM launches 'Green Sigma' business consulting
News Using sensors and software, IBM's consulting crew will help businesses reduce their energy and water use as part of efficiency and "green business" programs.
Tags: Green IT, Consulting, IBM Corp., software, energy efficiency, Business Consulting, Corporate Social Responsibility, supply chain, strategy, accounting
Tap on green tools, firms urged
News Using proper tools to manage carbon and energy will become imperative to businesses in an increasingly low-carbon economy, say industry watchers.
Tags: Green IT, Business applications, Business, Carbon, Tool, business intelligence, software, Corporate Social Responsibility, blade server, managing director
Printer vendors push green for cheap
News Printer manufacturers zoom in on design, technology and tools to offer environment-friendly machines that can also help businesses reduce costs.
Tags: Peripherals, Green IT, Business, Canon Inc., Carbon Footprint, imaging, e-mail, printer, printing, printer company
Education takes off in rural India, helped by PCs
News Computer-assisted education is helping to draw village children back into school, and going a long way toward improving India's literacy rate of 65 percent.
Tags: Local Government, Regulations, IT training, Children, School, India, Computer-aided Learning, Education, Internet Connection, Computer
Firms turn to consumer goods for productivity
News The line between personal and enterprise tools may be blurring as organizations turn to consumer products to help them in the workplace.
Tags: Consumer Technology, IBM Corp., Ovum, Mobile, Smart Phone, IBM Lotus Notes, Standards, Consumerization, e-mail, asset
Asian telcos step up 'green' in 2009
News Green will be a "high priority" for the region's telcos going forward as they seek to cut costs and ride out the downturn, note industry observers.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, LANs and WANs, Network infrastructure, Ovum, Mobile, SingTel, Telecommunications, Wireless, Spokesperson
Govt, telcos, financial firms to lift M'sia IT sector
News These three sectors are expected to spend most on technology in Malaysia, thus helping its infocomm technology industry to grow in 2009 despite a slowdown.
Tags: Sales/revenue, Acquisitions, Government, Telecommunications, International Data Corp., Information And Communication Technology, Broadband, BPO, Malaysia, financial
Govts urged to help SMEs through downturn
News APEC SME seminar recommends governments reserve part of their ICT procurement budgets toward enabling smaller businesses to ride out economic crisis.
Tags: Government, Funding, Innovation, Business, Small And Medium Enterprise, Asia-Pacific, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, Malaysia, Intellectual Property Right
IBM to count carbon emissions for cash
News IBM has partnered with two other companies to build an application that they say can accurately measure corporate efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Tags: Business ethics
Old computers from UK put to good use in Africa
News A British council complies with waste disposal directive while it gives a tech boost to Ghana.
Tags: Personal Computers, Corporate responsibility
Poor data hinders corporate social responsibility drive
News Data and information needed to prioritize CSR investment and measure its impact is currently spread across organizations in disparate systems and databases, says AMR Research.
Tags: Business ethics
Microsoft offers charity-friendly license
News The software maker creates a program that allows charities to use donated PCs without breaking its software licensing rules.
Tags: Personal Computers, Software licensing
