At Cisco Systems, we believe that the most valuable
contribution we can make is to educate and provide the resources
needed by our communities through programs which create, sustain,
and empower its members to reach their potential.
The Cisco Government Affairs team works with government leaders
around the world to identify and enact policies that promote opportunities
through education and technology.
- John Chambers says that the two greatest equalizers in life
are the Internet and Education -- so we use our core competency
-The Internet - to help facilitate the spread of the other great
equalizer - Education. Our core initiative in education is the
Cisco Networking
Academy Program. With over 250,000 students in over 140
countries worldwide and all 50 U.S. states, the Cisco Networking
Academy Program has been more successful than we would have
ever dreamed and it is only growing.
- At the G-8 Summit in July, 2000, Cisco Systems announced that
it will work with its strategic partners - the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP) and the United States Agency for
International Development's Leland Initiative - to extend the
Cisco Networking Academy Program to 24 of the world's 49 Least
Developed Countries (LDCs). With this initiative, Cisco will
partner for the first time with the United Nations Secretary
General's new initiative UNITeS and the United Nations Volunteers
to implement the program and expand the range of information
and communication technologies available within LDCs. Read more
about this Initiative on Cisco's
Least Developed Countries Initiative Website.
-
 Netaid.org
is Cisco Systems' initiative with the United Nations Development
Program. Through powerful public-private partnerships, in alliance
with Internet users, Netaid.org is creating the largest global
online community acting on extreme poverty worldwide. Netaid
makes big changes through countless small acts that are well-directed,
personal and relevant. Please visit this site and learn what
you can do to help.
- The
Cisco Systems Foundation was established in 1997 by a gift
from Cisco Systems, Inc. As Corporate Philanthropy's primary
cash investment vehicle, we provide grants to organizations
with long-lasting, local or global impact.
- At Cisco, we believe we have a real responsibility to participate
in the development of the communities in which we live and work.
To that end, we've developed a spectrum of turnkey programs
to assist community-based organizations and our own employees
in their endeavors to become positive social change agents.
Our Community
Investment program is changing the way we give.
- Cisco's
Support for Global Compact - At the World Economic Forum,
Davos, Switzerland on 31 January 1999, UN Secretary-General
Kofi A. Annan challenged world business leaders to "embrace
and enact" the Global Compact, both in their individual
corporate practices and by supporting appropriate public policies.
These principles cover topics in human rights, labor and environment.
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