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Blog Post: New European partnerships aim to tackle youth unemployment

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Earlier today as part of our global YouthSpark initiative we held an event in Brussels with representatives from the public, private and nonprofit sectors to discuss the challenges facing young people in Europe. Around the world the prolonged economic downturn has disproportionately affected youth and...

on22 Jan 2013
Blog Post: Collaboration, Persistence and Community: Our take on the essence of Innovation

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Editor’s note: Recently we help an Innovate4Good@Microsoft event in Brussels, you can read a report from the event here . Michalis Tolkas and Jasmer Dhingra both attended the event and we thought it would be interesting to get their perspective on the event and how young people can connect and...

on31 May 2012
Blog Post: Beaming Bright in Brussels - Innovate4Good sparked by European Youth

Microsoft Citizenship Team

By Sylvie Laffarge, Europe Director of Citizenship & Public Affairs “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas!” is how the saying goes. That is precisely the enthused response that Innovate4Good drew in Brussels where I just spent the day with 150 amazing young people from around...

on3 May 2012
Blog Post: European students helping nonprofits with technology

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Sylvie Laffarge, Director Community Affairs Europe at Microsoft. Last December we announced the Tech Talent 4 Good pilot program, which offered European IT students an internship with a nonprofit, charitable organization in Europe and following a competitive selection process, ten internships were...

on22 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Employee volunteering program protects children online in Belgium

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Laurence Verriest, Community Affairs Lead, Microsoft Belgium. Child Focus is a Belgian NGO that has been working tirelessly to protect children online for many years. Microsoft has collaborated with Child Focus for the last four years and has been training children and teachers in schools around Belgium...

on18 Jan 2011
Blog Post: Preparing Today’s Students for the Jobs of Tomorrow

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Anthony Salcito, Vice President of Microsoft Education Note: Cross posted from the Microsoft on the Issues blog. This week, people from around the world will gather at two education events in London – the Education World Forum (EWF) and the BETT trade show – to discuss how technology...

on11 Jan 2011
Blog Post: Austria´s National IT-Fitness Initiative takes up on a big challenge!

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Have you ever heard the EU Digital Agenda ? If you are based in or interested in the European Market of almost 500 million people you probably should. This strategic document covers the main directions of the ICT policy of the European Union for the next 5 years. One of its seven pillars talks...

on27 Dec 2010
Blog Post: How PowerPoint is helping to protect motorcyclists in London

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Typically, helmets, riding suits, gloves and goggles that are the best way to keep motorcyclists safe on the road. It’s time to add PowerPoint to the list. Motorcycle-related accident statistics are sobering. Motorcycles represent 4% of the United Kingdom’s road trips, yet make up a...

on13 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Technology to help giving

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Like our colleagues in other countries the work we do in local communities is very important to us and as we move closer to Christmas it's great to be able to tell you about something that Microsoft UK is doing to help the vulnerable and underprivileged children in our communities this festive season...

on6 Dec 2010
Blog Post: ‘Tech Talent 4 Good’ brings students and nonprofits together

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Wouldn’t it be amazing to combine a passion for technology with a unique opportunity to do something worthwhile for a charitable organization? This week we are celebrating the launch of the “ Tech Talent 4 Good ” initiative in Europe that aims to accomplish just that. For many years...

on2 Dec 2010
Blog Post: Supporting the Work of our UN Partners – A Decade of Impact and Counting

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Posted by Linda Zecher , Corporate Vice President Worldwide Public Sector, Microsoft Last night in New York, the United Nations Foundation honored Microsoft with the inaugural Corporate Award for leadership in advancing UN causes. I had the distinct honor of accepting this award on behalf...

on19 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: 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: 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: How software brings deep sea archaeology into the living room

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Working at Microsoft, I’m fully aware of the amazing things that people can do with technology and the impact that it can have, but every now and then, my knowledge is taken to new depths – literally! The Octopus Deep-Sea Archeology Research Association has a long history of successful...

on13 Aug 2010
Blog Post: Lowy Institute and the Millennium Development Goals

Clair Deevey

I was recently invited to speak on a panel at an event being hosted by the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Australia. The event was themed “Advancing Innovative Development and Aid Strategies in the Asia Pacific: Advancing the Millennium Development Goals”. The conference aimed to...

on16 Jul 2010
Blog Post: 1+1=3: How Microsoft’s Partnerships with International Organizations Help Save Lives and Offer Hope

Microsoft Citizenship Team

This week I am attending Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington D.C. In the past, this conference was focused on Microsoft’s commercial partners – the 700,000 partners who work with us to develop innovative applications built on our technology. This year 10,000 attendees...

on14 Jul 2010
Blog Post: Imagine a world…

Tom_Murphy

As I write this post, over 400 students from every corner of the world are competing in Warsaw, Poland at the finals of the 2010 Imagine Cup . Every single one of these students is a winner. Over 325,000 students registered for this year’s competition and through local and regional competitions...

on5 Jul 2010
Blog Post: Bridging the digital gap in Norway

Microsoft Citizenship Team

Like many European countries, Norway has an aging population. Today, 13% of the population is above the age of 67 and by 2020 it is estimated that will grow to 22%. In 2008, the Norwegian Government presented a widely welcomed parliamentary white paper “An Information Society For All” which...

on2 Jul 2010
Blog Post: Microsoft Partners with the Alsace Regional Council to Preserve Alsatian

Microsoft Citizenship Team

The traditional language of France’s Alsace region, on its eastern border, is Alsatian, a dialect of German that is currently endangered. Although an estimated sixty percent of Alsatians can speak this dialect, only about thirty-five percent are fluent. Furthermore, the majority of the fluent speakers...

on16 Nov 2009