In this podcast, we speak to Barbara Kreissler, Project Manager at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) about HP’s GET-IT programme.
About two thirds of the African youth entering the job market have difficulties finding a job. The GET-IT programme provides training to unemployed youth and graduates between the ages of 16 and 25 and helps potential entrepreneurs acquire IT skills with the aim of becoming better placed to create and run their own businesses.
In this podcast, we speak to Michel Benard, director of Open Innovations for HP International; Ibrahima Niang, director of the computing center at the University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal; and Benjamin Ogwo, Senior Lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka about UNESCO-HP's Brain Gain project.
Many nations in Africa and the Arab region are losing highly skilled professionals to more developed countries. UNESCO and HP are engaged in a joint effort to reverse this trend. The project links university researchers who have stayed in their home countries to scientific resources beyond their borders and to colleagues in the Diaspora.
In this podcast, we speak to Igor Belousov, HP IIT manager and head of HP’s Open Innovations Office in Russia about HP’s International Institute of Technology (IIT) which is educating a new generation of IT specialists.
The programme has provided 17 of Russia’s most distinguished universities with new hardware and software and technical departments that match worldwide standards in IT education. As part of IIT, innovative Technology Centres have established by HP at these universities. They offer interactive courses dealing with practical IT-related business challenges such as software, IT management and printing technology.
Did you know that the simple act of turning off your computer can help reduce energy waste, curb carbon emissions and save money? Small changes make a big difference. Find out how HP’s new ‘Power To Change’ campaign can help boost your efforts to go green at work and at home.
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.
In this podcast, we speak to Chris Preist, principal scientist in the HP Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab, United Kingdom who worked together with Forum for the Future, a renowned UK-based sustainable development organization, on a recently released report called ‘Climate Futures ’.
The report analyses the economic, political, social and psychological consequences of climate change and describes five possible scenarios that result from different responses to climate change.
In this podcast, we speak to Dennis Pamlin, Global Policy Advisor, WWF, who is the author of a report titled “Global strategy for the first global IT strategy for CO2 reductions". The report was supported by HP and details ten existing technology solutions that have the potential to reduce the one billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions – the equivalent of nearly one-quarter of the European Union’s current CO2 emissions.
In this podcast, we speak to Mette Andersen, Special Advisor to the Danish Centre for CSR, who is the co-author of our recently released report titled “Small suppliers in global supply chains - Partnerships for sustainable competitiveness“. The report is based on an exhaustive study of HP’s small and medium company suppliers based in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
