ICT

The growing use of information and communications technology (ICT) creates opportunities for societies to benefit from access to information and for companies to develop their business in new ways.

With experience across the whole information and communications technology spectrum—telecoms, internet, software, consumer electronics, and equipment manufacturing—
BSR is well placed to help ICT companies integrate corporate responsibility into their business strategies.

As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights marks its sixtieth year, don't miss our special series of snapshots on the impacts of ICT on human rights.

Our Impact

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Capacity Building Study in China

Explore the multi-stakeholder project we developed, in partnership with the Foreign Investment Advisory Service, to assess the social and environmental conditions in Shenzhen's ICT industry.


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Achieving Global eSustainability

Understand the hot-button challenges facing the fast-moving ICT sector through our groundbreaking work with the Global eSustainability Initiative.


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Strategy for Incubator in Emerging Economies

Learn more about the strategy we developed for IBM to create a virtual business incubator for small businesses in India, Brazil, and South Africa.

Issue Areas

  • Climate change
  • Freedom of expression and censorship
  • Waste and material use
  • Privacy
  • Digital divide
  • Sustainable product design
  • Emerging markets
  • Social and economic impacts
  • ICT as a sustainability solution
  • ICT and human rights
  • Base of the pyramid

Dig Deeper

Member Companies

  • Adobe Systems Incorporated
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Apple
  • AT&T
  • Autodesk, Inc.
  • BT Group plc
  • Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Dell Inc.
  • Dolby Laboratories
  • eBay
  • GXS, Inc
  • Hewlett-Packard Company
  • Hitachi
  • IBM Corporation
  • Intel Corporation
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Oracle Corporation
  • PCH International
  • SAP AG
  • Seagate Technologies, Inc.
  • SK Telecom
  • Sony Corporation
  • Sprint Nextel Corporation
  • STMicroelectronics
  • Symantec
  • Tellabs, Inc.
  • Toshiba Corporation
  • Verizon Communications, Inc.
  • Xerox Corporation
  • Yahoo! Inc.