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HP Global Citizenship Report
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Social investment
Educational achievement
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Education is essential to economic development and to creating prosperous communities. Information technology (IT) benefits education by improving access to information, supporting innovative and engaging teaching methods, and increasing student academic achievement. HP donates products and cash and provides technical and professional development support to improve teaching and enhance student success in educational institutions. HP has supported education projects for 65 years and has invested nearly $240 million in education since 2000. In addition to donating equipment, we also tap our expertise to help teachers and policymakers use technology to best benefit students. Target areas include math, science and engineering and assisting educational institutions in underserved communities. As the largest IT company in the world, we help educators understand the skills that employers—particularly technology organizations—look for, now and for the future. We engage with education policymakers to encourage them to invest in education that will maintain a well-trained and competitive workforce. For example, HP is part of the eSkills Leadership Initiative, a European Commission-backed business collaboration working to increase investment in the IT skills of European workers. These efforts also benefit us by fostering a stronger, more qualified candidate pool to draw from. In 2007, we became the leading sponsor of the Clinton Global Initiative’s education program. This effort aims to place more than 350,000 out-of-school children into educational programs and improve learning for an additional 650,000 students. HP will employ its expertise in mobile technology to bring classroom learning to students living in remote areas.
HP’s Technology for Teaching program, now in its fourth year, provides funding to bring technology into classrooms to improve teaching and make lessons more exciting and engaging. The program is run in collaboration with the nonprofit organization International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Each selected school, college or university receives HP products such as Tablet PCs, multimedia projectors, digital cameras and printers. We work with ISTE to offer customized professional development and mentoring for K–12 teachers in the United States and Canada. In addition, we encourage higher education grant recipients to share good ideas, successes and challenges through online communities, conferences and online speaker sessions. In 2007, we donated $12.2 million in cash and HP products through the program to 237 schools and universities in 36 countries in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific and Japan. We have made HP Technology for Teaching grants of nearly $50 million to 840 educational institutions in 36 countries since the program began in 2004. Grant recipients who demonstrate a positive impact on student achievement may receive reinvestment Leadership Grants. These grants enable recipients to share the technology benefits with their entire school or university department. In 2007, HP provided reinvestment grants of $2.5 million to schools and universities worldwide. In 2007, 23 current and past recipients of HP’s Technology for Teaching grants from 16 countries in EMEA gathered in London for the first European Higher Education Forum, an opportunity for grant recipients to join a community to share best practices and benefit from each other’s experiences. One of our success stories from the United States spotlights teachers at Culver Elementary School in Oregon who recognized the value of using technology in teaching but whose classrooms had only out-of-date equipment unable to run current software. The school received an HP Technology for Teaching grant that enabled it to upgrade its resources with HP Tablet PCs, digital projectors and digital cameras. The grant also paid for teachers to receive training from ISTE on how to use the equipment to best benefit students. The teachers now use HP projectors to lead lessons and present online materials. The HP Tablet PCs allow students to create web content, write reports and develop PowerPoint presentations as well as access the Internet to conduct research and take virtual field trips. The digital cameras are used to document scientific experiments and capture images for projects. The introduction of technology into the classroom improved student enthusiasm, participation and achievement. According to the grant recipient, among fifth graders:
After seeing the impact of the first grant, HP awarded a second that provided the school with more equipment and the opportunity for two more teachers to receive training.
See HP’s blog related to teaching, learning and technology in higher education.
HP offices worldwide also support country- and region-specific education programs that address local needs. Following are a few examples from 2007.
In 2007, HP donated equipment worth $100,000 to help train the next generation of doctors at The University Health Network, one of Canada’s largest health science centers. The equipment is being used to record patient-doctor meetings, operations and clinical examinations of patients. The recordings are then played back to students to promote discussions about particular cases. Before the equipment was installed, only five or six students could watch a patient examination from an observation room; now up to 100 students can watch on laptops and plasma TVs.
The number of students enrolled in higher education institutions in China has rapidly increased in recent years, putting significant pressure on resources. Many of these students come from poor backgrounds. In 2007, HP continued to support Pathways to Higher Education, an initiative to improve higher education for disadvantaged students in China. In 2006, we donated HP products valued at $525,000 to equip learning centers in 16 colleges. Equipment included PCs, laptops, printers and projectors. In 2007 we built on these efforts and launched a platform for those participating colleges to share their ideas and best practices.
HP is helping to improve learning in Africa through its support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), a pan-African development organization. NEPAD, with the help of HP and other technology companies, is enhancing student science and IT skills by equipping schools with the latest digital technology. The NEPAD e-school initiative aims to connect 600,000 primary and secondary schools in Africa to the Internet by 2015. HP and other technology companies are supporting 21 schools in six countries— Egypt, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda—during an initial demonstration phase. In 2007, NEPAD launched its sixth e-school, the Al Hadeen secondary school in El-Behira, Egypt. HP donated equipment worth more than $275,000 to stock a computer lab and an audiovisual room with servers, PCs, printers, scanners, copiers, digital cameras and projectors. Wireless broadband connects the school to the outside world. We also provided training for the students in basic computer skills and for teachers in the use of equipment in the classroom. HP also supported the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa with a donation of $500,000 in 2007. The academy helps academically talented girls from economically disadvantaged backgrounds develop intellectual and social skills for leadership.
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