posted by Dave Stangis on March 26, 2008
The cutting edge of CSR is the tangible intersection of social improvement and business opportunity. I see the example of Intel’s Rural Connectivity Platform as one of the most real examples of that cutting edge.
-Dave
This entry was first posted by Cheryl Miller on the Research@Intel blog.
I have followed this project over the past few years as it has moved from an exploratory project in the Intel Research lab, to testing in such remote places as Vietnam, India, South Africa, Panama and…Berkeley.
The demo that was presented at the Berkeley Lab open house had two antenna transmitting video via WIFI connection. One of the antenna was on top of the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the UC Berkeley campus which is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) away from the lab in downtown Berkeley.
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tagged: corporate social responsibility, CSR, Intel, long distance WiFi, Rural Connectivity Platform, Stangis
posted by Dave Stangis on March 21, 2008
I made my way to San Francisco Wednesday evening to attend Intel’s materials Supplier Day. I’ve been hearing about Supplier Day for more than 10 years in my career at Intel. I’ve even been writing about it for several years in the corporate responsibility report. It is an annual event that brings together the leaders of our most important suppliers. It is such a large event, that it is actually broken into two parts. One that focuses on equipment suppliers and another that focuses on materials and services suppliers. It was the latter group that I spoke to Thursday morning.
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tagged: Andy Bryant, CSR, Intel, Supply Chain, sustainability, The CRO
posted by Revital Bitan on March 20, 2008
Not too long ago, I participated in the second Israeli Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility at Tel Aviv University,Israel. The goal of this conference was to encourage more companies in Israel to join the global trend of CSR reporting. Sean Gilbert, an executive of the GRI organization , kicked off the conference with an enlightening overview of CSR reporting worldwide. Among other things, I’d like to share with you his insights about how to build a step-by-step reporting program .
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tagged: CSR, CSR report, GRI
posted by Dave Stangis on March 12, 2008
Is this some kind of new code to crack? No, these are just a few of the acronyms that come to mind as I return from the Intel Science Talent Search (STS) held in Washington D.C. Tuesday night.
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tagged: CSR, Fuel Cells, Intel, Social entrepreneurship, SSP, STS, sustainability
posted by Mark Pettinger on March 12, 2008
ISTS comes to a close with the announcement of the three winners. Scroll down for audio and video podcasts of the competition.
First place winner: Shivani Sud from Durham, NC. She developed a “50-gene model” which uses gene expression to link multiple genetic events that characterize various tumor types to more accurately predict the recurrence of colon cancer.
Second place winner: Graham Van Schaik from Columbia, SC. His research project confirmed that realistic exposure to pyrethroids promotes cellular proliferation in human breast cells, an indication of cancer, and neurite retraction in rat PC12 neurons, a sign of a neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer’s.
Third place winner: Brian McCarthy from Hillsboro, OR. He used plant-like photosynthetic materials found in nature to synthesize extremely thin, fragile films for potential use as solar cells and tested them using scanning electron microscopy techniques.
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tagged: education, high school, Intel, ISTS, science, science fair
posted by Larry Bozman on March 10, 2008
Imagine a circular room where the farther you walk around the outer rim of its stone-tiled floor, the more enlightened you become. Or the less enlightened you feel.
The place exists, but only for a week, once a year in Washington, D.C., the capital of the USA. Over the weekend of March 8th and 9th, the rotunda of the National Academy of Sciences filled with the projects, problems, and contemplations of some of the brightest young people around.-forty of them.
All are honored finalists in one of the oldest pre-college science competitions in America; affectionately—-and some may say long-windedly—called the Intel Science Talent Search. The high school seniors showed off their original research and had it reviewed and judged by highly regarded scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
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tagged: education, high school, Intel, ISTS, research, science, science fair
posted by Christine Dotts on March 10, 2008
Yes, there is a $1 million dollar award for the person who can answer one of the most important open questions in computer science and mathematics – does P = NP? Louis Wasserman, a senior from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland explored this question through research. And while he hasn’t fully conquered the $1 million question, he is one of 40 finalists at the annual Intel Science Talent Search competing for a $100,000 college scholarship.
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tagged: CSR, education, Intel, Intel Science Talent Search, Intel STS, Louis Wasserman
posted by Dave Stangis on March 09, 2008
I don’t always do as much as I’d like to do on the subjects of Sustainability or CSR in my (current) home state of Arizona, but this week was different.
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tagged: AzBAS, CSR, Dial, Eco-Edge, HBR, Intel, Stangis, sustainability, The Biosphere Rules, Thunderbird, Unruh, USBCSD
posted by Mark Pettinger on March 09, 2008
The kids arrived in drips and drabs. Some of them arrived Wednesday night; those were the kids from out west…Portland, and Hawaii being the farthest distance. We don’t remember their being a finalist from Hawaii in all the time Intel’s been the sponsor of the Intel Science Talent Search.
Maybe because they’re really bright, or maybe because they don’t have the trappings or carry the false bravado of adulthood, but already these kids – arguably the 40 brightest young scientists in the country – are getting along like they’ve known each other for some time.
Well, in fact the advance of technology and its ubiquitous integration into their daily lives has enabled them to get to know each other…through Facebook! Stefan Muller from Port Washington, New York shared that he enjoyed getting to know his fellow finalists on-line, but that it took some calibrating once meeting face to face.
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tagged: Intel, ISTS, science, Science Talent Search, Ted Hoff
posted by Mark Pettinger on March 08, 2008
Here is a short video from the first day of the Intel Science Talent Search, where you can meet some of the finalists and get a sense for what it’s like to be part of this select group.
Every year we are amazed by how focused, passionate, yet refreshingly down to earth these kids are. Take a look for yourself…
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tagged: education, high school, Intel, ISTS, science, Science Talent Search
posted by Mark Pettinger on March 06, 2008
Between us we’ve been supporting Intel’s science competitions for more than ten years. And this just happens to be the tenth year of the Intel Science Talent Search.
Every March Intel Science Talent Search brings together the top 40 high school seniors – accomplished scientists in their own right – for a week of activities in Washington D.C. Besides several days of intense judging, the students get a whirlwind experience in our nation’s capital – including presenting their projects to the public at the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, and meeting with elected officials and top scientists at federal agencies.
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tagged: David Vigliarolo Bauer, education, Intel, ISTS, Mary Masterman, Mason Hedberg, Ryan Patterson, Science Talent Search
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