If you know who can tell a great story? Can it an artistic quality in the way their words in your ear-settle, or maybe their thoughts jump right of the page (or screen) and captivate you. Well, how about 1,400 + stories of more than 100 countries distributed?
Which we is on as many stories, the new local impact mapcollected have, the Bing map that can explore and zoom to to discover projects underway of the wide range of Microsoft citizenship now.
These projects cover a wide range of technology donations to nonprofits to education and employment to help people. If the Microsoft corporate Citiczenship team wanted to tell these stories, the Local impact map (LIM) was born.
The local impact map is hosted on Bing maps. Silverlight deep zoom technology combined with rich search results pages and capabilities, so you can read all 1400 + stories about how we work with partners to help people and businesses around the world. They are to expand beyond their reach and reduce their costs inspirational, but also informative-- give us a deep look, how non-profits to use our products.
Here are three examples:
Microsoft Alliance with Ministry of Culture supports public libraries In 2010, the Ministry of culture in Colombia of the national literature and libraries brought plan at the top of their efforts to improve the digital literacy of its citizens. Working in partnership with Microsoft Colombia, were built more than 1,000 public libraries in Windows 7 and Microsoft Office together with relevant training to support the Ministry efforts. Read more on the local impact map.
Technology contributes to improving the medical efficiency and patient experience Access to good information and efficient communication play an important role in providing effective medical care. The Hematology and bone marrow transplantation Department at Szt. László hospital in Hungary is just one of many hospitals, are missing to keep the resources with growing demands on their services. Between Microsoft Windows Server and Office applications, we helped to find a way, benefit their operations to speed up staff and patients. Read more about the solution on the local impact map.
Boys & girls clubs offer storage technology and management One of the many projects with young & girls Club of America, technology camps in North Carolina around the capabilities of the interest in the information technology (IT) information field 11th grader boost helped. Microsoft donated and 100 copies of Windows 7 and Office installed on laptops, the students. Read more about the technology and maintenance of camps here.
These are three of more than 1,400 stories that you can try on the local impact map. I invite you to discover what technology to people all over the world does. Let us know, what stories that inspire you!
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--Tara Grumm, corporate citizenship team at Microsoft and Holly Thomas
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