In HP’s early days our founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard made a modest $5 donation to a local community organisation. This small act started a tradition of giving and of corporate responsibility that was quickly instilled in the company.
In the newly launched HP Philanthropy and Education Annual Report we record a year of community involvement, education initiatives and employee giving wherever HP works across the globe.
Community care in Israel: HP digs deep When HP joined forces with Scitex Vision in Israel last year to create HP Inkjet Industrial Division (HP IID), a new window of opportunity was opened for the company to become closely involved in community care.
A tradition of community involvement was already well established within HP IID, with employees giving time and money to help social causes. But, by working with Matan, the Israeli affiliate of United Way International, HP IID has been able to dig deeper into meeting specific community needs.
Interview: Solutions for building better business In previous editions of Global Citizenship Bulletin, we have reported on the launch of new Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Programme (MAP) centres throughout EMEA. These centres focus on teaching and learning programmes for micro-enterprises – businesses with up to 10 employees.
Taking developments one step further, the recently launched Micro-Enterprise Acceleration (MEA) Institute, sponsored by HP, has announced an international initiative to develop technology-rich learning environments for micro-entrepreneurs and small business owners. We spoke to Didier Philippe, President of the MEA Institute to find out more about the institute, the new initiative and plans for the future.
HP doubles university grants in Europe, Middle East and Africa HP announced in early July that we will award 12 universities with equipment and training worth US$70,000 (Euro 55,800) to pioneer the use of mobile technology.
The Technology for Teaching grants are designed to provide universities with the tools to redesign courses in maths, science and business. For example, the University of Veszprém in Hungary intends to use the grant to improve student-teacher interaction in healthcare courses. Previously, the lack of mobility in traditional computer labs has made it difficult for teachers to present medical information systems.
Global strategy meets stringent new environment rules HP has won a race against time in readying more than 10,000 products for new EU rules on the use of hazardous substances.
The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which came into force on 1 July, restricts the types of metal and chemical agents that can go into electronic products sold in the EU. These include familiar substances such as lead and mercury, and less unfamiliar ones such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers, a chemical added to computers and TVs to reduce fire risk.
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