Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
EMC supports a variety of corporate responsibility initiatives around the world and in 2010 EMC ranked 19th on Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens List. EMC Ranked 66th on Newsweek’s U.S. Green Rankings and 20th in the Technology Green Rankings in 2010. In February 2010, EMC joined the Ceres Network, a non-profit organization that addresses sustainability challenges, such as global climate change. In 2009, EMC was awarded the “Enable the Eco-Enterprise” by Oracle for its effort to support their green business practice and reduce environmental impact by utilizing Oracle applications and reporting.
EMC sponsors programs in the United States that strive to improve education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and 19,000 students have taken Information Storage and Management courses from 2006-2009. EMC is a partner of the World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative (GEI) whose charter is to raise awareness and support the implementation of relevant, sustainable and scalable national education sector plans on a global level. EMC and its employees support a variety of local community foundations and programs in order to give back to their local communities.
In support of its Supply Chain Sustainability initiative, EMC is a member of the Electronic Industry Citizen Coalition (EICC), which promotes an industry code of conduct for global electronics supply chains to improve working and environmental conditions.
EMC is a board member of The Green Grid, a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiencies in data centers around the world. The Green Grid’s mission is to help promote the adoption of energy efficient standards, process, measurement method and technologies in order to reduce power consumption and waste globally. EMC is also a member of one of Green Grid’s Alliance Partners, SNIA. SNIA is a non-profit organization
A March 2011 TED lecture by Morgan Spurlock, creator of the documentary Supersize Me, was partly sponsored by EMC. The company bought the naming rights to the lecture, titled "The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold". The lecture covered the subject of transparency in modern advertising and marketing. The company bought these rights via an online auction on eBay for $7,100. At the end of the lecture, a check for the amount EMC paid was donated to The Sapling foundation—the parent company of TED Conferences, LLC.
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