Cisco Networking Academy partner NIIT Foundation creatively addresses inclusivity

While the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts India’s economy will bounce back strongly from the pandemic — with GDP predicted to grow 12.5 percent in 2021, after an eight percent decline in 2020 — a big challenge is ensuring that the growth is inclusive.India has achieved a great...

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Initiatives to enable progress: Taking action during a global pandemic

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Cisco employees continue to seek ways to make an impact, especially during this difficult time. We made this easier by doubling the number of paid days off available for employees to volunteer from five to 10 in 2020. In addition, we increased the annual match for employee giving...

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Energy efficiency of Cisco products

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Improving product energy efficiency is more than just a regulatory requirement for Cisco. It’s an opportunity for us to help customers save on energy costs, lower GHG emissions, and reduce global energy demand. It also makes our products more competitive.1 Recent literature from 2015 has seen GHG emissions...

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Essential workplace skills: where to begin

I was always keen on STEM subjects at school. I loved maths. It was my strongest subject and I was the kind of student who thought you can achieve anything in the world if you put the work in. School involved a very different style of learning. For...

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Building character towards future success

Why does someone become a fashion designer? Or a scientist, an investor, or entrepreneur – or all of the above? I don’t ever recall thinking I wanted to “be” this or that. I just wanted to do something. And then I looked up and discovered I had become...

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How Cisco manages corporate social responsibility

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Cisco pioneered the technology that connects everything. We believe that connections have the potential to create opportunity for everyone and to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Leveraging our expertise, technology, and a strong network of partners, we’re focused on building bridges to a more inclusive...

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No shame, no stigma: Ending the mental health taboo

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We want everyone to know that it’s okay to not be okay. Cisco is changing the conversation about mental health issues within our company. Over the past year, Cisco has made it a priority to not only end the taboo against talking about mental health, but encourage people...

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The Digital Readiness Index: transforming economies through technology

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Advances in data and technology have the potential to create a new kind of economic divide, one separating those with digital capabilities from those without. Cisco wants to help more countries and states get ahead. We’re doing so with our Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program, which acts upon...

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Corporate Knights and CDP Announce Global Sustainability Leaders

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Earlier this week, both CDP and Corporate Knights announced the results of their 2020 assessment of thousands of global companies in the areas of climate change (CDP) and the broader topic of sustainability (Corporate Knights). At the 2020 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos Switzerland Corporate Knights released...

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Digital Green: Providing for those who provide for others

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Smallholder farmers produce more than 80 percent of the world’s food. But they also make up 80 percent of the world’s poorest people, which means they often lack the resources to grow their businesses. Digital Green, a Cisco social investment partner, is using technology to change this equation....

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How we take our culture to the next level with Conscious Culture

A company’s culture can be its greatest asset. Unfortunately, you don’t have to look far to find companies where culture isn’t working. Places with problems like unethical behavior, discrimination, and harassment. And employees who are afraid to speak their mind. Cisco aims to help set a new standard,...

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