Global Citizenship Bulletin

HP’s Social Investment Strategy - what’s it all about?

HP has long held the belief that investing in the future, and in particular in education, is the key to developing the next generation of high-tech innovators and entrepreneurs. That’s why HP’s Social Investment Strategy focuses on two main areas: Innovation in Education and Entrepreneurship in Education.

Our feature this month looks at how HP supports innovative teaching and learning practices and highlights the achievements in our various social investment progammes.

Barbara Kreissler talks about the effective partnership between UNIDO and HP on HP’s GET-IT training programme in Africa and the Middle East.

In 2008 HP established a partnership with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) to provide Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT (GET-IT) in Africa. GET-IT training provides under - and unemployed people aged 16-25 with a combination of entrepreneurship skills and practical, hands-on experience in the use of IT.

HP’s ‘Power to Change energy’ saving campaign gains momentum

HP’s ‘Power to Change’ campaign, which was launched just in June and which encourages users to turn off computers when they’re not in use, is really gaining momentum. To date, more than 18,600 people have joined the campaign by downloading a desktop widget, which tracks the cumulative energy savings relating to PCs when they are switched off at the end of the day.

HP and JA-YE announce winners of HP Responsible Business Competition

HP and Junior Achievement Young Enterprise (JA-YE) announced the winners of the 2009 HP Responsible Business Competition in July. The competition is divided into two categories: the HP Responsible Business Ideas Contest, which was won by a team from Germany and the HP Responsible Business Award, which was won by a team from Lithuania.

HP Israel helps local communities with successful ‘Doing Well Day’

HP Israel teamed up with the non-governmental organisation MATAN at the beginning of June to hold a special ‘Doing Well Day’. The aim of the day was to serve local communities by offering help and assistance in a variety of ways. More than 300 employees came together to take part in different, charitable activities and the day was pronounced a resounding success.

The latest news through our success stories, podcasts and blogs

With every edition of Global Citizenship Bulletin, we bring you the top highlights of our news and developments that are taking place throughout EMEA. However, different events and initiatives focusing on Global Citizenship within HP take place every day and, as we cannot publish details about them all in the bulletin, we are reporting on them in a variety other ways, such as videos, success stories, podcasts or blogs.

Summer 2009 issue

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