As per a recent announcement by IBM(NYSE:IBM), it has implemented three community projects in Jamnagar, Gujarat as a part of its Corporate Service Corps (CSC) programme. For this move, IBM has partnered with NGOs, namely Essar Foundation, Chaitanya Charitable Trust and Saurashtra Voluntary Actions (SAVA).
Working with the Essar Foundation and the Chaitanya Charitable Trust, the IBM team will focus on creating a framework to both enhance access to quality education as well as advise on best case scenarios to provide quality training materials to schools in the region. In its work with Saurashtra Voluntary Actions (SAVA), the IBM CSC team will work to optimize the organization’s processes by providing a blueprint for successful operations.
IBM’s vibrant CSC initiative is unique because it places high performing, talented employees from across the world in non-profit organizations in emerging countries for a month. This is a leadership development programme that combines HR's need to develop global leaders and, at the same time, utilize their skills to contribute to the community. The CSC programme has made a direct economic impact in over 20 countries it has engaged in, said Mamtha Sharma, Country Manager Corporate Citizenship & Community Affairs, IBM India/South Asia.
Under the CSC programme, IBM will enable to provide its employees free of charge to organizations in order to deliver high-quality IT and business consulting skills to local governments or communities in what is considered to be the largest programme of its kind.
Over 2,000 IBM employees have undertaken assignments in 34 countries since the founding of the Corporate Service Corps five years ago.
