By JBC on 22 June 2009
SENGAL - Nokia teamed up with children’s rights awareness raising organisation Plan to help boost an innovative music project called Tundu Joor. The objective is to bring poor children together with well known artists to create music. Behind the music is a key message, to promote child rights. 27 Senegalese artistes have taken part following a regional call out to kids who were interested in the project. Those involved created the album Tundu Joor after taking part in a series of workshops focused on music and getting involved.
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By JBC on 04 June 2009
GLOBAL - The N2Y4 NetSquared Conference was held last week in San Jose, California and comprised two days of meetings and seminars facilitated by leaders “working at the cross-roads of technology and social change”. One of the conference highlights was the announcement of the winners for the N2YR Mobile Challenge, which called for innovative mobile applications supporting social good. There was a raft of excellent entries for the challenge and picking winners couldn’t have been easy, but pick they must and we’ve got the list of winners, and featured projects after the jump.
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By Charlie on 28 April 2009
ESPOO, Finland - The folks at Nokia Singapore had a little issue. They wanted to have a round table discussion with journalists to discuss the environmental activities we have at Nokia. One problem: all the people they wanted to talk to were in Espoo. It seemed silly to make a special event and have the speakers fly down. While the event would have been good, the flights, time, and money spent would not have been proper.
We do have this amazing HALO system for really good video conferencing. And we have a HALO room in Espoo and Singapore, so it made sense to invite the journalists in Singapore to connect to the people in Espoo via HALO.* We sat in on the round table discussion and took some video of what it was like (see below). Also, there were some great things said and some choice presentations. But we’ll hold off on those because we’re possibly having another round table in the near future.
So, read on to see what it was like and to see some video of the round table event.
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By JBC on 24 April 2009
MOUNT EVEREST, Nepal/China - Two cricket teams climbed to the Everest base camp earlier this week to play a game of cricket, raising money for charity and breaking the current world record for the highest game of cricket ever played. The expedition team, sponsored by Nokia Maps, set off on their journey from London on April 9 and reached their destination, the Gorak Shep, nine days later.
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By Charlie on 15 April 2009
GLOBAL - I recently wrote two articles on Nokia’s environmental activities and e-waste. In one, I proudly mention the company’s strong ethics, which in turn influence our suppliers, such as sourcing Tantalum from the conflict areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
I’m not the only one thinking of Tantalum. Fortune wrote a very good article on the subject of “conflict minerals,” and a European wide group of NGOs have united under a campaign called “Make IT Fair,” calling for electronics corporations to do more to ensure materials are not sourced unethically from regions such as the DRC.
This is a very serious matter. Please read on to learn more about this and what we’ve been doing.
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By Charlie on 13 April 2009
GLOBAL - We have been writing a lot about all the actions Nokia takes related to the environment. Part of it is our interest in all the amazing things Nokia does and the awards it gets. But it’s also a fascination with just how prevalent care for the environment is at Nokia.
An article we wrote last month, exploring the question of phone buy-back schemes, was called into question by some of my colleagues, setting me off on an exploration of buy-back schemes, e-waste, and a deeper discovery of how far care for the environment goes at Nokia.
Join me, after the jump, in the first part of this discovery: Nokia and the environment. Continue reading>>
By JBC on 26 March 2009
GLOBAL - That headline is the title of an internal campaign at Nokia to try and get everyone thinking about unplugging unused appliance to save energy (or to cut down on energy usage, depending on how you view it). The more astute amongst you (not including our RSS readers) will have noticed the countdown timer appear on the site. That’ll be ticking away the seconds until we hit earthhour, this Saturday, 28 March at 8.30PM local time in each country. Nokia supports and participates in EarthHour, which is organised by WWF, but it doesn’t stop there.
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By JBC on 06 March 2009
GLOBAL - This Sunday is International Women’s day and as Nokia is involved in some interesting initiavtives, we thought it’d be a good idea, and opportunity to highlight some of those. Following the earthquake in Pakinstan in 2005, the “Recrafting Destiny” program was set up to help local women from the Siran Valley. The women, who’s lives were severely affected by the earthquake, are learning to recreate their destiny, coming together to create a range of handcrafted beadwork products including jewelry and mobile phone accessories.
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By Mike on 23 February 2009
GLOBAL - A couple of weeks ago we posed you the question, what do you think is the most important aspect of eco phones? The poll has now closed, the votes have been tallied up, and the results are in.
Click through to find out what you and your fellow Nokia Conversations readers reckon are the top requirements of an environmentally savvy handset.
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By Mike on 19 February 2009
BARCELONA, Spain - Here on Conversations we’ve been hooked on the big phone charger question, so this week’s announcement of the Universal Charging Solution (UCS) marks a hugely welcomed development - this milestone collaboration will see 17 mobile operators and manufacturers, including Nokia, work with the GSMA towards an industry standard universal charger for new mobile phones. News of the Universal Charging Solution has already triggered a global wave of mostly widespread, and naturally a few doubters, plus it has resulted in some interesting wider questions stretching beyond the mobile space.
Read on to get the full lowdown on the Universal Charging Solution, what it means and how it will work. Plus, we’ve gathered together a few reactionary highlights to this innovative eco-led phone charger initiative.
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SENGAL - Nokia teamed up with children’s rights awareness raising organisation Plan to help boost an innovative music project called Tundu Joor. The objective is to bring poor children together with well known artists to create music. Behind the music is a key message, to promote child rights. 27 Senegalese artistes have taken part following a regional call out to kids who were interested in the project. Those involved created the album Tundu Joor after taking part in a series of workshops focused on music and getting involved.
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