Corporate Social Responsibility

Jan 8 2009   4:20AM GMT

Report and Model (Responsibility and Governance)

Posted by: viip
Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibility, IBM, Social Responsibility, Governance, Data Governance, Inherent Quality

 

This report may help generate a few good ideas; and this model may help further thinking relative to maturing governance, including relative to data.

 

 

All the best in the years of the future. Thank you for all you do.

Dec 3 2008   3:33PM GMT

Celebration, December 5 (you can make a positive difference)

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Green IT, Community, Unity and Diversity, Teamwork, Zen, Fellowship, American Express, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Eco-Innovation, Sustainability, Climate Change, iStudio, Green Coalition, CIBC, Avis, Aeroplan, Green it up, Carbon Offset

On December 5, Aeroplan will celebrate! This post takes no credit and simply shares awareness. 

You can help make a positive difference. Thank you for doing so! 

From: Szigeti, Meighan [mailto:mszigeti@istudio.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:50 PM
To: info@inherentquality.com
Subject: Aeroplan Green It Up

Hi Ron,

My name is Meighan, a consultant from iStudio Canada (www.istudio.ca) contacting you on behalf of Aeroplan (www.aeroplan.com).  I’m contacting you about your blog, VIIP beam it up, so I hope contacting you through info@inherentquality.com is alright. You  posted almost a year ago on Aeroplan’s Green It Up program, with some positive and thoughtful comments on how these initiatives can impact both the IT industry, and the future of the environment. On Friday, December 5, Aeroplan will celebrate the one-year anniversary of Green it Up, a program that enables members to use Aeroplan Miles to buy carbon offsets and offset the emissions generated by their reward travel and everyday activities. To increase the environmental benefit, Aeroplan matches member contributions by an additional 20%.  This Friday, however, to encourage members to take action to reduce the collective impact on the environment, Aeroplan, along with its Green Coalition of Partners: American Express, CIBC, and Avis will each match all miles redeemed for carbon offsets up to 50%. 

Aeroplan does not generate any revenue from the Carbon Offset Program or Green It Up and to help understand the effect, if 2,000 Aeroplan Members each redeem 7,500 miles to purchase carbon offsets, the combined impact would be equivalent to:

-          Taking 3,500 cars off the road for one year

-          Burning 8.25 million fewer litres of gasoline

-          Countering the emissions created by 1,700 homes

In terms of digital assets, you can share with your readers, friends and online community members the following links: 

1.       The main Aeroplan Green It Up program page (which you might already know about)

www.aeroplan.com/offset

2.      Information on the Carbon Reduction Fund and projects.

www.carbonreductionfund.com

We want Aeroplan members and the public to know that they can offset their carbon impact when using air travel in a meaningful way.  Drop a line if you need more information or if this is a topic you are interested.

Best, Meighan Szigeti

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Meighan Szigeti
Associate Consultant, iStudio
CanadaDirect: 416-645-3653
Main: 416-598-8061 ext. 327 Fax: 416-598-8096
Email: mszigeti@istudio.ca
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Sep 7 2008   1:17PM GMT

Renewed hope for inspiration, imagination and dedication

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Responsibility

Looking back (e.g. potentially on billions of years since the earth was formed), and then looking forward to the future (e.g. to 2020 and beyond), perhaps you feel that open minds and doors that let in and increase things like awareness and stewardship have great potential to produce ingenuity successfully converted into better realities. Perhaps you also feel that by further enabling collaboration (e.g., between David and Goliath, or between individuals and large organizations), there can be renewed hope for inspiration, imagination and dedication to increasingly flourish.

Looking within the emerging formalized global IT profession, what innately do you see has the greatest potential to advance the quality of life for the global community?

Aug 28 2008   5:13PM GMT

Research Assistant, Research This… Thank you for doing so.

Posted by: viip
Business/IT Alignment, Inherent Quality, Corporate Social Responsibility

A comprehensive list of ways IT can be a help to practicing and increasing what Corporate Social Responsibility fully means.

This post will be submitted to Whatis.com in response to their 8-28-2008 email entitled “Let us research an IT topic for you”. An excerpt from the email is indented.

Celebrate Labor Day by letting us do the labor

Great would be a related reply in the form of a comment with a link to information that will help any number of people or organizations enhance the application of corporate social responsibility, intrinsically and pervasively, from various perspectives (to for example perhaps help our world and all within be increasingly wiser, more peaceful, healthier and wealthier).

What does or can Corporate Social Responsibility really mean and how can IT be a catalyst for related progress?