Cisco CSR

Supplier Diversity Programs Bring Out the Entrepreneur Within

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This piece was authored by guest blogger Jasmin Herro, founder and CEO of Outback Global Australia and vice president of Outback Global USA. Outback Global is an Indigenous-owned business certified with Supply Nation, along with Cisco Australia, which is also a member. Supply Nation is an organization dedicated to growing diversity within the supply chain.  […]

How Grameen Foundation Connects the Unconnected

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The following blog was originally posted on the Grameen Foundation Insights Blog Today, Cisco asked us all to share our vision of how the Internet of Everything can improve our world, by “connecting the unconnected.” Like Cisco, we believe that human networks and technology can play a significant role in transforming people’s lives. At Grameen Foundation, our […]

3 Ways The Internet of Everything Is Improving Our World

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This blog was originally posted on Huffington Post. Every day, we’re bombarded with seemingly unsolvable issues — health care crises, struggling schools, poverty, and climate change are just a few. These issues may at first seem too big for any of us to solve. But in today’s technology-driven world, we actually have more power than […]

Tackling Children’s Health Problems with Technology and Collaboration

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Children’s health care is a growing concern on a domestic and global scale among parents, specialists, and policymakers. Treating this special population, particularly among those living in rural communities, ignites continual challenges including insurance concerns, limited transportation, and the low number and availability of pediatric specialists. In addition, child mortality remains a global concern. According […]

How can the Internet of Everything Improve Our World?

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Join this week long public conversation on Twitter and Huffington Post Impact starting Oct. 7 The growth and convergence of people process, data, and things on the Internet – the Internet of Everything — is making networked connections more valuable and relevant than ever before, creating unprecedented opportunities for countries, businesses, and individuals around the […]

Cisco Partners Recognized for Promoting Achievement in K-12 Education

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This week, 2 of Cisco’s current or former education nonprofit partners were recognized by Business Roundtable for their work to prepare U.S. K-12 students for college and the workplace. MIND Research Institute. MIND’s Spatial Temporal (ST) Math program is a language-free, web-based software program that uses animation to help students learn key math concepts. Cisco support […]

Cisco STEM Mentoring Events Aim to Inspire Students

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By 2018, it is estimated there will be 1.2 million U.S. job openings in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. While that sounds like good news, there is an acute shortage of qualified applicants to fill these jobs. The students in our schools today simply don’t have the skills and desire needed to compete […]

Cisco on CNN at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting

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Why does Cisco invest hundreds of millions of dollars around the world each year to help improve access to education, healthcare, critical human needs, and disaster relief?  Cisco CEO and Chairman John Chambers said in a recent CNN interview that “corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a must for the future of capitalism.” He shared his […]

A Half Million Likes on Facebook: Cisco Networking Academy Uses Social Media to Engage and Educate

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This post was written by Hilal Chouman, social media strategist for Cisco Networking Academy Since late 2009, Cisco Networking Academy (NetAcad), one of Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, has been present on various social media networks. The earliest presence was on the rising social network of that time: Facebook. In late 2010, NetAcad’s Facebook […]