ALA students at their Jo'burg campus - the Bezos Scholars Program will include 5 students from the acclaimed institution (Image:CSR Africa)

Bezos Scholars Program Announces 2012 Scholars - Includes 5 Students from African Leadership Academy

The Bezos Scholars Program @ the Aspen Institute have announced their selection for the 2012 Bezos Scholars. This prestigious all-expense-paid scholarship brings together 12 of the US top public high school juniors and 12 exceptional educators for a week of exploration, dialogue and debate at the acclaimed Aspen Ideas Festival between June 26 and July 2, 2012. Also, the Bezos Scholars Program will include five outstanding students and an educator from the African Leadership Academy in South Africa. They are Nokwanda Ramatheko of Johannesburg, South Africa, Eyerusalem Assefa of Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, Bradley Opere of Nairobi, Kenya, Varishth Torul of New Grove, Mauritius, Gabriel Wamunyu of Nairobi, Kenya and Ryan Findley of the ALA Leadership & Entrepreneurship faculty ...
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Social Entrepreneurship

Team of Three to Be Named Winner at IBM-Sponsored International College Programming Contest

IBM is a technology leader with great interest in contributing to business and public sector processes' transformation (Image:CSR Africa)
The next generation of elite computer engineers will meet in Warsaw, Poland, May 14 through May 17 to compete in the 36th Annual World Finals of the IBM-sponsored (NYSE: IBM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The contest, which is affectionately known as the Battle of the Brains, will be hosted by the University of Warsaw and will challenge students to solve some of the most difficult programming problems in a strict five hour deadline. Of the 112 teams who will compete in the contest, only one will emerge as the winner and claim "The World's Smartest Trophy."
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Leadership

Huawei Appoints a New CEO for the Kenya Office

Huawei IDEOS has become the most popular smart phone in Kenya under the leadership of the exiting CEO, Herman He (Image: CSR Africa Files)
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Mr. Wind Li as the new Chief Executive Officer for its Kenya representative office. Mr. Li takes over from Herman He, who served as CEO for over five years. Prior to his new appointment, Mr. Li served as the company’s Regional Director of Sales. He has over 10 years experience in the telecom industry, and previously worked as the MD of Huawei in Zambia, and earlier as an account manager with Huawei in Madagascar. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and Applications from Xian University of Technology.
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Work place

AfDB’s 2012 Annual Meetings takes theme of Africa’s role in emerging global landscape

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The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) will hold its Annual Meetings this year in Arusha, Tanzania, from 28 May to 1 June. The theme of the 2012 meetings will be ‘Africa and the emerging global landscape: challenges and opportunities’. As always, the meetings will be a gathering of numerous high-level participants from the AfDB’s member countries.
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Environment

UNEP Flags off Electric Car on African Odyssey

UNEP Flags off Electric Car on African Odyssey
Mission Africa, part of the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, aims to demonstrate the reliability and energy efficiency of electric vehicles under extreme conditions and also highlight the lack of electricity in many communities in Africa.
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Health

GBC Health recognizes leading businesses for their work addressing pressing global health challenges during annual conference on May 14th and 15th 2012

GBCHealth is a coalition of more than 230 companies working to improve the health of their workforces and communities around the world.
GBCHealth announced the winners of the 2012 Business Action on Health Awards. The awards recognize the best corporate programs developed to address global health needs. Awards will be presented to winning companies during GBCHealth’s annual conference on May 14th and 15th at the Roosevelt Hotel, New York City.
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Education

CoZa Cares Foundation a sponsor of Africa’s biggest education conference

CoZa Cares Foundation a sponsor of Africa’s biggest education conference
Africa’s most prestigious annual gathering of high-level policy makers, decision-makers and practitioners from education, business and government, eLearning Africa, will this year receive sponsorship from the CoZa Cares Foundation.
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CSR Reports

Huawei Releases 2011 Corporate Sustainability Report

Huawei has been a leader in CSR across Africa with major focus on knowledge transfer, enabling of nation-wide broadband acess and localization of its talent in all regions of operations (Image: Annette Mutuku - Huawei East & Central Africa)
Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today released its 2011 Corporate Sustainability Report. The report provides an overview of Huawei’s commitments and practices with regard to its corporate social responsibilities, including bridging the digital divide, caring for employees, fair operations, environmental protection, social contribution, supply chain CSR management, stakeholder communications and safe operations.
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Society

dotAfrica, a new symbol of Africans Identity, Unity and Pride

In the near future, CSR Africa readers mights be going to csrafrica.africa (Image:CSR Africa)
Expressing identity is one of the ways we reveal who we are to other human beings. From 2013, Africans connected to the world through the medium of the Internet will have a new way to express our growing sense of Afro-optimism. This growing sense that things on the African continent appear rosier than any of us can remember is because the fundamentals are right.
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Features

Man Who Lost Legs is Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro to Raise $750,000 for Free The Children

Me to We motivational speaker and author, Spencer West, who at the age of five lost his legs.
Camping trips, lounging by the pool and sport leagues are great summer activities. But what else will Canadians be doing this summer to challenge themselves and create memories that will last a lifetime? Me to We motivational speaker and author, Spencer West, who at the age of five lost his legs, is climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro - the tallest mountain in Africa - as part of his new Redefine Possible mission, while raising money for international charity, Free The Children.
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African Leaders Ideas Exchange

Changing Africa for the Better – One Idea by Lead Us Today, One Young Leader at a Time

Dalumuzi Mhlanga is a 3rd year Social Studies Student at Harvard and the founder of Lead Us Today, a Zimbabwean organization that nurtures youth leadership (Image courtesy of Dalumuzi Mhlanga)
Dalumuzi Mhlanga, a third year Social Studies student at Harvard was one of three winners of the 2011 College Social Innovator Contest organized by Harvard College Social Innovation Collaborative and Forbes.com Common Good column. He has allowed The CSR Africa Daily to reproduce the following essay that focuses on Lead Us Today, a non-profit organization he founded in Zimbabwe whose mission is to inspire, mobilize and empower young people to work together beyond socioeconomic barriers so that they can lead community development efforts.
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AfricanCEO

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day – Huawei Empowers Female Engineers & Inspires their Future

"Our role is to provide our employees with equal opportunities" says Wind Li, Huawei's CEO for Kenya (Image:CSR Africa Files)
The World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) seeks to raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide. Today, 17th May, marks the anniversary of the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
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AfricanCIO

The Inside Lane to Being a Female Engineer at Huawei Tanzania

Rose Funja works with Huawei Tanzania (Images: Huawei Technologies)
As one of the world’s leading global ICT solutions provider, Huawei takes pride in its innovations and people. And to celebrate the International Telecommunications Union’s Telecommunications & Information Day, the CSR Africa Daily looks at the journey one of its female engineers, Rose Funja, has taken to arrive at her current position…
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John Muthee Dr. John Muthee is the founder of Corporate Social Responsibility Africa Limited, the proprietors of CSR Africa Daily. He is currently a graduate student at Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business.


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