Initiatives to enable progress: Taking action during a global pandemic
Cisco employees continue to seek ways to make an impact. As we move on to an inclusive recovery, we take a look back at Cisco's pandemic response.
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Using AI for good: Identifying and locating survivors of human trafficking
This blog post comes from Emily Kennedy, co-founder of Marinus Analytics, a startup that identifies victims of sex trafficking based on online movements.
Connecting in a time of crisis: Cisco’s response to COVID-19
Cisco's response to COVID-19 includes enabling the world’s networks to handle the sudden work-from-home surge, and providing collaboration tools that keep us connected.
Sidestepping the status quo: My entrepreneurial journey
This blog post comes from Sarah Mak, the co-founder and CEO at Folktale, a SaaS platform for organizations to listen-at-scale through crowd-sourced videos.
Stepping in together to help the children of Lebanon
Cisco engineer, Maha Akkari, shares her story of a 1,000-pair shoe donation that evolved into a nationwide 52,000-pair shoe distribution – in only a year!
One entrepreneur’s search for a BrightSign leads to a life-changing invention
This blog post comes from Hadeel Ayoub, the Founder and CEO of BrightSign and the inventor of a smart glove that assists people with hearing impairments.
Astia is transforming the way we fund businesses
Cisco has invested in early-phase funding to help Astia develop a tech-enabled platform to source and screen companies applying to Astia for investment, and work to remove bias from the investment process.
Choose to challenge: How investing in women strengthens families and communities
This year's theme for International Women's Day is "choose to challenge," which encourages every one of us to call out gender bias and inequality.
Code.org: Driving a global digital literacy movement in K-12 education
There are over 2 billion computers and more than 2.5 million apps in the world today, integrated into nearly every aspect of our lives. They influence how we work, drive, access healthcare, vote and more – and their uses are only growing. But how much
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