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Blog Post: Guest Post: Microsoft and British Council – the odd couple

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By: Simon Gammell, Director West Coast, British Council, Los Angeles The closing keynote of the Microsoft PiL Global Forum, delivered Saturday night in Prague by Microsoft’s Vice President of World Wide Public Sector, Laura Ipsen, featured strongly Microsoft’s burgeoning partnership with the British...

on3 Dec 2012
Blog Post: Developing IT Pros of the Future in Rwanda

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Peter Njagi, Microsoft Certified Trainer I have worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2004. In March 2012, I heard about a program called the NetHope Academy that was going to be launched in Rwanda. After doing some research, I learned that the NetHope Academy provides internships and training...

on10 May 2012
Blog Post: In Africa, linking technology and health

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Guest post from Emeline Cokelet Meneken, a writer and editor at PATH Kenyan Janet Karani got her first email address a decade ago. It was a way to stay in touch with friends who had moved from Kenya to the United States and was far easier than waiting for the public telephone in a local shopping center...

on27 Feb 2012
Blog Post: Volunteers create a circle of giving back in Kenya

Microsoft Citizenship Team

One of the things we regularly see through employee giving at Microsoft is the passion people have for making a positive difference. Several employees are utilizing their volunteer hours here to support the Global Give Back Circle (GGBC), a nonprofit organization that helps underprivileged girls in Kenya...

on28 Oct 2011
Blog Post: Helping to respond to the Horn of Africa Crisis

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Editor’s note: Cross-posted from the Microsoft on the Issues blog . Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft It has been more than two months since famine was declared in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti, leaving 12.4 million people in need...

on29 Sep 2011
Blog Post: A Helping Hand in Malawi

Microsoft Citizenship Team

John Nielsen, General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa Customer Service and Support at Microsoft and Paul Norris, General Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa Premier Field Engineering at Microsoft Have you ever welcomed an open window on a warm summer night? Unfortunately, the seemingly simple...

on2 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Corporate Citizenship is a critical component in developing future leaders

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Shannon Banks, Worldwide Leadership Development Consultant, Microsoft I still remember the day, two years ago, when I hit send on the email. As a leadership development consultant at Microsoft, I was responsible for designing the appropriate experience for 30 of our most talented senior leaders...

on2 Nov 2010
Blog Post: Dispatch from Cape Town: Exceptional teachers step on the global stage

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Greetings from South Africa! This week I have the privilege of being in Cape Town, South Africa among more than 500 educators, school leaders and government officials who have gathered from around the world to attend the Sixth Annual Partners in Learning (PIL) Worldwide Innovative Education Forum...

on26 Oct 2010
Blog Post: CGI: Accelerating 21st Century Education in Kenya

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Last year at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, the Government of Kenya and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a collaborative project focused on improving education in up to 60 primary and secondary schools in Kenya. This was an incredible announcement...

on24 Sep 2010
Blog Post: CGI: Teachers are the key to providing children with quality education

Microsoft Citizenship Team

In 2008, we announced a commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to train 10 million teachers by 2015. We undertook this goal, because we believe that every child has the right to a quality education. Throughout the course of a child’s education, there is perhaps no more important influence...

on23 Sep 2010
Blog Post: CGI: Guest Post - Helping Girls in Kenya to Give Back

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Linda Lockhart, Managing Director, Global Give Back Circle Imagine you are a disadvantaged girl in Kenya, categorized as coming from the bottom of the economic pyramid. Imagine you grew up sleeping in a hut made from mud and dung, and next to you, in another hut your grandparents kept a cow, some...

on22 Sep 2010
Blog Post: CGI: Supporting skills, content and context in local communities

Akhtar Badshah

A major focus of our global programs is about providing individuals around the world with access to information and communications technology (ICT) – what some still call digital inclusion or “closing the digital divide.” We aren’t a hardware infrastructure provider, so achieving...

on21 Sep 2010
Blog Post: Moving from Transactional to Transformational – the Power of Technology

Akhtar Badshah

In the near future when I drive up to a village in Africa, although the roads may be bumpy and dusty, I will see a woman using a tablet PC powered by the latest renewable energy source and connected to the internet giving her information on sustainable and locally proven farming techniques and providing...

on17 Aug 2010
Blog Post: Video: How technology can enable nonprofits

Akhtar Badshah

The second session at our recent Accelerator Summit was a panel discussion I hosted that looked at the role technology can play in helping NGOs to have an even greater impact in our society. We were delighted to have a great line-up including Daniel Ben-Horin, Founder and Co-CEO, TechSoup , Vida Durant...

on4 Jun 2010
Blog Post: ICT in Africa, A Central Theme at the African Union Heads of State Summit This Month

Microsoft Citizenship Team

This week at the African Union Heads of State Summit in Addis Ababa leaders from the continent are meeting on the theme of: “Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Africa: challenges and prospects for development.” Growing out of an increased recognition that technology is a...

on29 Jan 2010
Blog Post: The EU-Africa Business Forum: ICT for Regional Economic Growth

Microsoft Citizenship Team

The current moment is a particularly challenging one for the continent of Africa. Following in line with the global economic crisis, growth in Africa is now expected to be only 2.8 percent in 2009, following five years of consecutive growth above 5.5 percent. Yet no time is more important than now to...

on15 Oct 2009
Blog Post: Social Entrepreneurs in the Making

Microsoft Citizenship Team

It is Imagine Cup season! Known as the “Olympics of Technology,” Microsoft Imagine Cup is the preeminent student technology competition in the world. This year, over 300,000 students from 100 countries are vying for a chance to compete in the Worldwide Finals in Cairo and all trying to solve...

on12 May 2009
Blog Post: Improving Rural Mass Transit Information in South Africa – Team Smile

Microsoft Citizenship Team

The following guest post comes from Team Smile, a team of finalists for the Imagine Cup Rural Innovation Award from South Africa. Team Smile developed WhereIsMyShuttle?, which uses GPS/GPRS tracking devices fitted to buses to provide daily schedules of bus activities via SMS. The system also provides...

on3 Jul 2008