For a society to prosper, people must be able to satisfy their needs for food, water, shelter, sanitation, personal safety, social interaction, and self-actualization. Cisco directs a significant portion of our social investments toward meeting these fundamental human needs. What’s more, our employees are personally involved in a range of efforts that contribute to the well-being of their fellow citizens and the communities in which they live.
Our overall strategy is to support programs that can grow to serve an increasingly larger segment of the population, that can be replicated to serve additional populations, and that can sustain themselves once they are established and underway. Because we believe networking can be a powerful force for improving life in impoverished and underserved communities, Cisco focuses on partnering with nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and other organizations that take advantage of the Internet. We prefer to invest early in the innovation cycle, and then go on to direct our investments to other projects when the initiative matures and becomes self-supporting.
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