Crowd-sourcing a solar-powered society with World Community Grid
Imagine if we could embed solar power generators into objects and materials around us? And what if the solar cells in these products were as cheap and easy to mass-manufacture as plastic bags, bringing the possibility of affordable solar energy to impoverished areas? These are the dreams of Harvard University’s ‘Clean Energy Project’, which has […]
IBM Service Grants: Ensuring NGOs can afford the best management advice
“Caring for children with a severe illness or disability is a 24-hour job,” says Danielle Huse, director of charitable home Villa Rozerood. “Parents can never ‘switch off’ and brothers and sisters inevitably have to cope with being given less indulgence than most children would get, because so much attention is devoted to the sick child. […]
Building tomorrow’s cities, today
In a June 2013 Le Soir interview, Benoît Lutgen (CDh) proposed a solution to the demographic challenges facing Wallonia (an estimated 400,000 additional inhabitants in the next 10-15 years). “Let’s build a revolutionary, new city; innovative in […] mobility, energy conservation and the use of new materials.” Friedl Maertens, IBM’s Business Development Public Sector, disagrees […]
The IBM Corporate Service Corps: Helping the planet one location at a time
Over the last five years, 2,400 IBM employees have been dispatched on almost 200 voluntary aid engagements around the world. The Corporate Service Corps has provided more than US$70 million worth of skilled, pro-bono services since 2008, directly benefiting 140,000 people. Jeffrey Balrak talks about his recent experiences as a Belgian IBMer sent to an […]