Global Citizenship Bulletin

HP takes GET-IT initiative to new heights

“The political agenda in Europe and Middle East is that entrepreneurship is seen as driver of economic development and growth.”

These words were spoken by Jeannette Weisschuh, Director Global Social Innovations Education Initiatives at the second HP GET-IT conference , which was held in Cairo last month. The conference brought together delegates from more than 80 Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT (GET-IT) training centres from appoximately 20 countries, to learn how HP’s GET-IT programme can help them to develop and strengthen their own communities and economy.

HP talks to the winner of the 2009 Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award.

At the beginning of this month, the winners of the 2009 Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Competition were announced at the Eco-Efficient Economy Conference dinner in Linköping in Sweden.

Ashridge Business School

European Academy of Business in Society

World Wildlife Fund

HP and WWF publish new white paper: ‘From Green IT to Greening with IT’

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has just published a new white paper entitled ‘From Green IT to Greening with IT (PDF 1.75MB) ’ which was supported by HP. The paper looks at how opportunities can be created out of the global financial crisis to ensure accelerated CO2 reductions with low carbon IT solutions. It also brings to a conclusion a major joint initiative between HP and WWF EMEA called ‘ICT Innovation as a Driver of Climate Change Solutions’

HP announces winner of HP JA Global Business Challenge Award

HP and Junior Achievement Worldwide (JA) have announced the winners of the HP Global Business Challenge , which is a worldwide competition designed to increase students’ business knowledge and skills. In a fiercely fought contest, Team Topol-M from Russia beat seven other competing finalists from eight countries to win the coveted prize of US $3,000. Four out of the top five teams came from EMEA.

Africa: What’s to be gained from expanding your brain?

In 2006, HP and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched a pilot project to enable universities in five African countries to collaborate with experts around the world in innovative education and research projects.

The project, entitled ‘Piloting Solutions for Reversing Brain-Drain to Brain Gain for Africa’ was extremely successful. So much so that, last month, HP and UNESCO announced the expansion of the initiative to cover an additional 15 higher education institutions in 11 countries in the Middle East and Africa.

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 success stories, podcasts and blogs.

Autumn/Winter 2009 issue

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