In this podcast, we speak to Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic who is Chief, Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education at UNESCO. Stamenka gives insights into the UNESCO – HP partnership to use grid and cloud computing technology to connect universities in Africa and the Middle East to global research networks.
Universities involved can re-establish or strengthen links between researchers who have stayed in their home countries and those who left, connecting scientists to international peers, academic networks and funding opportunities.
In this podcast, we speak to Dr Kirstie McIntyre, HP Environmental Compliance Manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa, about the first results of a pilot project to tackle the problem of electronic waste (e-waste) in Africa.
The pilot project in Cape Town represented the main focus of this Africa-wide project with encouraging results. The facility processed approximately 60 tonnes of electronic equipment, generated an income of around €14,000 from February to November 2008 and created direct employment for 19 people. The project also seeks to incorporate informal processing activities that have proved highly effective in dealing with waste, by transforming them into sustainable and environmentally sound operations.
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In this podcast, we speak to Erik Dauwen, Director of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship Belgium 
, about the importance of information technology in entrepreneurship training.
HP’s Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT (GET-IT) helps young un- or underemployed people and graduates aged 16 to 25 to acquire the business and IT skills to enter professional life or to start their own businesses.
In this podcast, we speak to Professor Gabriele Hecker, University of Furtwangen (Germany), about HP’s education grants.
HP’s Education Grants help schools transform teaching and learning. Thanks to an HP education grant, the department of Business Networking (eBusiness) engages women with children in a new experiment – an e-learning course designed specifically for them. HP Tablets give the students access to the university’s new virtual classroom, allowing greater flexibility to combine study with childcare.
In this podcast, we speak to Jay Celorie, HP Global Program Manager for Supply Chain Energy, about HP’s approach to transparency in its supply chain.
The reporting on CO2 emissions in its supply chain represents an initial step in a long-term program. HP is working to establish better standardization of tools and methodologies to facilitate consistent and reliable reporting among suppliers and enable a robust process that could potentially be implemented throughout HP’s supply chain.
