Corporate Social Responsibility

Seafarers UK – White water rafting

Posted by Ian Burgess on June 10, 2010 at 2:29 pm

Today  I meet with Ewan Hastings from Seafarers UK he was explaining their “Corporate Partnerships” and some of the events they have lined up in the future, as a result I am looking to get a team together for the White Water Rafting event is anyone interested?

Football Strip Appeal For Ghana

Posted by Ian Burgess on January 13, 2010 at 10:57 am

Long term contact of mine, Mike Kean of Ask Training, has sent out a request for logistic support for football equipment to be shiped to Ghana. To see the work they are doing watch Brite’s Story. If you can support this please contact Mike by email at mike@asktraining.co.uk.

Eben Moglen Software and Community in the Early 21st Century

Posted by Ian Burgess on August 9, 2009 at 4:47 pm

One of the best presentations on the I have seen was given by Eben Moglen at the Plone Conference in 2006, It touches the challenges and possibility’s that face both community and software. It shows a great understanding of history and vision of the evolution of the future. I love the concept of “the Mathematics [...]

Challenges World Wide

Posted by Ian Burgess on April 24, 2009 at 1:47 pm

Just finished a meeting with Eoghan Mackie from Challenges World Wide, where we were discussing the development of some CSR offerings to Support Challenges. The basic ideas that we have put together we well received in the meeting this morning and the look like they will fly so watch this space.

Big Issue Foundation

Posted by Ian Burgess on April 22, 2009 at 11:39 am

Today I had a brief meeting with Gill Levy at Thrive event in Glasgow, it appears to be the same Foundation projects and cash generation process like recycling old mobile phones but one thing made me stop and take note which was “With Kids” which can be found at http://withkids.org.uk/.

Real Corporate Social Responsibility

Posted by Ian Burgess on April 21, 2009 at 9:20 am

Over the last few years I have had involvement in product development some in the growing area of CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) products. At first glance and in reality many people take CSR as a joke or something that they pay lip service to just to tick boxs in tenders and on promotional material. You can [...]