Corporate Social Responsibility

At Cisco, making an impact is something our Corporate Affairs team works toward every day. In 2016, we announced a goal to positively impact one billion people with digital solutions by 2025. Today we are proud to have impacted over 445M people through investing in tomorrow’s social change agents an…

This blog post was guest-written by Annie O’Rourke, CEO of Digital Workforce Australia and 89 Degrees East. She will be guest speaking about ‘Addressing real world problems with Artificial Intelligence’ session of the Women Rock-IT series on 17 October. To sign up for this or other webinars in the s…

Hiring the right talent has always been a challenge for organizations, but it’s even harder to find IT workers with the right combination of skills. This has led many technology companies, like Apple, Google, and IBM, to consider workers without a traditional college degree as long as they can demon…

In May 2019, 10 schools and over 250 students came together in Phoenix, Arizona for the Global Problem Solver Showcase and Competition. The winner? A new type of IoT device that helps to deter drunk driving. The inventors? A team of three middle schoolers. This is all possible through a partnership…

One year ago, we announced goals to achieve 100 percent renewable energy, water neutrality and zero waste at Cisco’s campus in Research Triangle Park (RTP), North Carolina. RTP is a growing campus in a regional innovation hub, surrounded by leading research universities and clean technology ventures…

This post was written by guest blogger Katie Schindall, Senior Manager, Circular Economy Program, Cisco. “With great power comes great responsibility.” The “power” referred to in this oft-cited quote is of course not the power we generate from energy, but it’s quite relevant to how we think about a…

At Cisco, we are committed to accelerating the transition of our business to the circular economy. We aim for all of our resources to follow a circular model – where we reduce our consumption of natural resources and design waste out of our value cycle, enabling products and packaging to be us…

This post was written by guest blogger Abbey Burns, Circular Economy Program Manager at Cisco Cisco’s products power networks and shape the way we live, work, play, and learn. However, they also shape the world in many other ways. We extract natural resources to make and ship our hardware, and our…

This post was written by guest blogger Alexa Schmidt, Senior Technology for Impact Program Manager, Mercy Corps. The organization I work for—Mercy Corps—strives to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression through economic development and emergency relief programs around the world. This work has…