Results for Technology & Innovation
Community involvement: packed with potential
December 01, 2004 Corporate community involvement has long been under-rated as a tool for government relations. Not only can it stave off cumbersome intervention by regulators, but it can also help to deliver on current public policy objectives as well as provide potential policy solutions for the future. Read more >
Inclusion: HP works to spread the net
November 01, 2004 Briefing talks to Didier Philippe about how HP is using a community-based programme to improve its service offering to the four billion people living in emerging markets, while delivering clear social benefits in the process. Read more >
Volunteering news round-up
July 31, 2004 The UK government is gearing up for another call on companies to help promote volunteering. While the business case is clear, the public sector should be investing resources too. Read more >
New technology: information evolution not revolution
March 01, 2004 After the early hype, the discovery of a digital divide burst the bubble of euphoria about how ICT would change the world. Slowly, the benefits are starting to show through. Read more >
The benefits of new technology?
March 01, 2004 Within countries and between countries, a "digital divide" has become apparent between those who have access to ICT tools and those that do not. However, there are now increasing signs that the early efforts to close the divide are starting to bear fruit. Read more >
Q&A: Joe Franses, Group Community Investment Manager, Cable & Wireless
March 01, 2004 Joe Franses from Cable & Wireless sets out why their new partnership with the Employers Forum on Disability makes good business sense. Read more >
Net gains: producer responsibilities in a digital world
November 01, 2003 Today's digital society of ebanking and mobile phones finds consumers more empowered than ever before. Does this reduce businesses' responsibility for the impact of their products? Not if the sustainable potential of these new technologies is ever going to be recognised, Vidhya Alakeson argues. Read more >
Elena Bonfiglioli: the full interview
August 31, 2003 The full Briefing interview with Elena Bonfiglioli, who six months ago swapped her advocacy hat and convenor cloak at CSR Europe, for the garb of the day-to-day CSR practitioner. Briefing asked Microsoft’s new CSR manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa how she feels in her new clothes. Read more >
New technology: beyond the dot.com backlash
December 01, 2002 Recent job cuts at Cable & Wireless, following the share price collapse, and the near disappearance of Marconi, provide just two more reminders that the bursting of the dot.com bubble has had a 'real economy' cost. Read more >