MANILA, PHILIPPINES, Sept 14, 2007 – Thirty one companies from all over Asia are vying for the first-ever Intel-AIM Corporate Responsibility Award (IACRA).
Intel and the Asian Institute of Management Ramon V. del Rosario Center for Corporate Responsibility recently launched the IACRA to honor specific organizations for excellent CSR projects in one or more of the following areas: Education, especially improving access to and quality of basic education; Community Involvement, focusing on providing sustainable executive time and attention; Environmental Stewardship; and Poverty Alleviation through providing innovative use of information communications and technology (ICT).
Awardees will be selected by an inclusive nomination process, jointly conducted by Intel and AIM. Important is the nominee’s cohesive and comprehensive integration of CSR in one or more of the priority areas mentioned. More importantly, CSR must be an integral part of the way the winner does business.
The Intel-AIM CSR Award is among the endeavors Intel and AIM are jointly driving to further corporate responsibility. The two recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on various endeavors to further mainstream the practice of CSR in business. Intel is the strategic technology partner of AIM in the Asian Forum on CSR in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on 27-28 September 2007. The AIM-RVR Center (AIM Ramon V. del Rosario Sr. Center for Corporate Responsibility) is also writing around 10 cases on Intel’s corporate responsibility efforts in Asia. Other joint undertakings promoting CSR may be announced at a later time.
About Intel
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
About the Asian Institute of Management
The Asian Institute of Management is an international graduate school of management that develops professional and socially responsible leaders and managers for Asia through practitioner-oriented degree and executive programs in management.
About the AIM Scientific Research Foundation Inc
The AIM Scientific Research Foundation Inc, thru the AIM Ramon V del Rosario Sr Center for Corporate Responsibility (RVR Center) is committed to social excellence. The RVR Center is tasked with the management of corporate citizenship, relative to the competitiveness of firms and its impact on society.
Intel Philippines’ Higher Education Program recently hosted a curriculum workshop on High Volume Manufacturing (HVM) for 25 engineering faculty from the country’s leading universities.
Through the Workshop, Intel is introducing a world-class curriculum for HVM, to the company’s worldwide network of universities. The Workshop has been conducted for universities in Ireland, Malaysia, the Philippines, and China, and will be brought to Costa Rica later in the year.
"The goal of Intel® Higher Education Curriculum workshops is to introduce world-class curriculum to the local universities," said Joselito Tulao, Higher Education Manager of Intel Technology Philippines Inc.
"With the model HVM curriculum modules which we hope the universities will adopt, industrial engineering students would be taught the basic capabilities that companies like Intel are looking for. In effect, we want to build a pool of technically competent graduates who will be our future workforce," explained Mr. Tulao.
Tulao says the program benefits not just Intel, but all companies engaged in high volume production, such as the semiconductor and automotive industries.
The model curriculum modules were developed by experts from Georgia Tech University, Professors Chen Zhou, Ph.D. and Spiridon Reveliotis, Ph.D., who came to the country to facilitate the Workshop.
"The local faculty is already quite sophisticated in what they are doing in their curricula, and maybe where our experience in Georgia Tech can help is in tying closer the theoretical coverage of their material to practical application," said Professor Reveliotis.
The Workshop was attended by faculty from the University of the Philippines, De La Salle University, and the Mapua Institute of Technology, since Intel sources most of their engineers from these three universities. "With the help from these universities, we hope to cascade the model curriculum to the other local universities in the future," Tulao said.
Intel® Higher Education Program is a global program designed to create a pipeline of world-class technical talent for Intel’s future workforce through collaboration with universities.
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
Bangko Sentral cites Intel as Top Exporter. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas awarded Intel Technology Philippines the Top Exporter for Electronics. Intel, together with the other outstanding stakeholders of BSP were feted in simple awarding ceremonies on
04 July, at the BSP Assembly Hall. Arlita Narag (in photo with BSP Governor Armando Tetangco), Corporate Affairs Manager, accepted the award for Intel. In 2006, Intel’s exports totaled USD4.84 b.
Bangko Sentral cites Intel as Top Exporter. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas awarded Intel Technology Philippines the Top Exporter for Electronics. Intel, together with the other outstanding stakeholders of BSP were feted in simple awarding ceremonies on
04 July, at the BSP Assembly Hall. Arlita Narag (in photo with BSP Governor Armando Tetangco), Corporate Affairs Manager, accepted the award for Intel. In 2006, Intel’s exports totaled USD4.84 b.
