Google, Microsoft and philanthropy
Google has named Larry Brilliant (what a name!) head of their philanthropic arm, Google.org. He gets to allocate 1% of Google’s annual profits and 1% of its stock to social development efforts.
Not to be outdone, Microsoft has announced a donation of $41 million in software and cash to NetHope and the International Working Group on Emergency Capacity Building for relief aid and disaster response.
Update: More comment via Owen Barder, who poses an interesting question about competition in global philanthropic health efforts. And more on Brilliant at TED2006 by Ethan Zuckerman.
Update: "I'm the luckiest guy in the world: I got to see the last case of smallpox in the world, and recently in India I may have seen the last cases of polio". —TEDPrize winner Larry Brilliant.
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Ian Davis, the worldwide managing director of McKinsey & Company, has argued eloquently for weaving social issues into strategy in corporates (see:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4008642). His perspective goes far beyond corporate social responsibility.
In addition to the growing number of social issues is the increasingly complex systems we weave in the world around us. This itself is a serious problem for strategy (See: http://anupamsaraph.blogspot.com/2006/02/sustaining-amidst-challenges-of.html) and therefore to address the critical social issues that concern us.
Posted by: Anupam Saraph | Feb 24, 2006 1:01:49 PM