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Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Yesterday, Washington took an important step in helping create new opportunities for our state’s children and our economy. At Rainier Beach High School in Seattle, I had the opportunity...

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post from Bindu Lohani, Vice President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Asian Development Bank. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in how we think about solutions for global societal challenges. Take the apps revolution...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Brad Smith gives Scott McLester, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Wyndham Worldwide, KIND's Innovation Award at the 2013 Gala at Jazz at the Lincoln Center in New York City...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues On the eve of the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Microsoft, along with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and TIME , will host the Creativity Conference on Friday. This conference will convene leaders from the...

Posted by Angela Camacho Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Latin America For the second year in a row, Women and Social Inclusion is a key topic area we’ll be discussing over the next two days at Microsoft’s annual Government Leaders Forum – Latin America and Caribbean in Rio...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues On March 28, approximately 75 leading policy makers and thought-leaders from industry, nonprofit and government engaged in a discussion on how to ensure that U.S. students and schools have what they need to attain the computer science knowledge...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Washington State can create and fill 160,000 new jobs and reduce its unemployment rate by up to two percentage points over the next five years by closing the gap between the skills employers...

Posted by John Scott Tynes Imagine Cup Competition Manager, Microsoft At a time when good jobs in IT are going unfilled, there is a strong desire among parents and educators to improve science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in K-12 schools. The need to embrace STEM skills early...

Posted by Dan Bross Senior Director, Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft We live in a world of increased and appropriate expectations related to the accountability companies have to operate as good corporate citizens. Consumers expect companies to have a positive impact in communities where they operate...

Posted by Orlando Ayala Chairman of Emerging Markets, Microsoft In celebration of International Women’s Day, Microsoft is proud to join United Nations Women (UN Women) and artists from around the world to launch a moving and inspiring song and music video, “ One Woman .” It celebrates...

Posted by Brad Smith General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft This is the second in a series of blog posts by Microsoft executives regarding the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Read the first blog post on the Citizenship blog...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Microsoft and GOOD have teamed up to give you the opportunity to help your favorite youth-focused nonprofit. Today, we are announcing the Microsoft Give For Youth Challenge , a contest where you nominate and vote for nonprofits who support young...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a monthly series from Microsoft’s Citizenship team that appears once per month. Pulse on Citizenship provides insight and commentary on topics and trends in corporate citizenship. Posted by Steve Lippman Director of Corporate Citizenship, Microsoft ...

Posted by Rane Johnson-Stempson Education & Scholarly Communication Principal Research Director, Microsoft Research Connections Here’s a sobering fact: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that, by 2018, there will be 1.4 million open technology jobs in the United States and, at...

Editor’s Note: The following post from Microsoft Vice President of U.S. Government Affairs Fred Humphries was originally published on the Computer Science Education Week Blog on Dec. 11. Posted by Fred Humphries Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs, Microsoft The United States is facing...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Today, the Reputation Institute, one of the world’s leading reputation management consultant firms, released its 2012 CSR RepTrak™ 100 report naming the companies with the best reputations for corporate social responsibility around...

Posted by Anthony Salcito Vice President of Worldwide Education, Microsoft One of the profound privileges of my job is that, every year around this same time, we host the Partners in Learning Global forum – this is the Olympics of innovative education. All of the participants (nearly 500 educators...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues At the Social Innovation Summit today, Microsoft announced the winners of the second annual Microsoft Imagine Cup Grants program, a three-year, $3 million competitive grant program that provides students with funding and support to help transform...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Today, 20 organizations issued a letter in support of Microsoft’s new National Talent Strategy , which outlines ideas for securing U.S. competitiveness and economic growth through citizenship efforts and strategy related to STEM education...

Posted by Frank McCosker General Manager, International Organizations (IO), Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector Persons with disabilities make up 1 billion of the world’s population, yet they face challenges in equal opportunity and access to society in critical areas like education, employment...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues On Wednesday, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs and General Counsel Brad Smith was a featured blogger over on The Huffington Post. In a post entitled “One Billion Reasons to Celebrate This Time of Year”...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a monthly series from Microsoft’s Citizenship team that appears on the second Wednesday of every month. Pulse on Citizenship provides insight and commentary on topics and trends in corporate citizenship. Posted by Steve Lippman Director of Corporate...

Posted by Jeff Meisner Editor, Microsoft on the Issues Yesterday, Brad Smith, Executive Vice President of Legal & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft spoke at the University of Washington’s Distinguished Lecture Series about the significant role Computer Science is playing in shaping the future...

Editor’s Note: This post is part of a monthly series from Microsoft’s Citizenship team that appears on the second Wednesday of every month. Pulse on Citizenship provides insight and commentary on topics and trends in corporate citizenship. Posted by Lori Harnick General Manager, Citizenship...

Posted by Anthony Salcito Vice President, Worldwide Education, Microsoft Tomorrow, our partner UNESCO celebrates World Teachers Day , when thousands of communities around the globe honor the women and men who selflessly (and for little material reward) hold our collective future in their hands. It’s...