Dell Focus Area | NET POSITIVE

Traditionally, many corporate social responsibility programs aimed to reduce the negative impact a company has. We believe the future belongs to those who can find solutions that create a positive social impact – not only reducing the negatives but increasing the positives, too. Such solutions can give more to society, the environment and the global economy.

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What is Net Positive?
Net Positive refers to products, solutions or even organizations where the measure of the handprint is bigger than the footprint.

Net Positive and online education
We worked with ASU to measure the impact of technology in online education. Here’s what we found in terms of socio-economic benefits versus carbon footprint.

Virtualization delivers more computing
VMware has studied the collective impact of customers using their server virtualization products. Here’s what we found in terms of CO2e avoided.

The sustainability benefits of flexible work
We were curious about the Net Positive effects of telecommuting. Here is our study, with information on how our flex work programs help Dell employees reduce their footprint.

Our quest to quantify Net Positive
Setting standards around how to measure/identify Net Positive results can help everyone understand the true impact of the products and services they use. That’s where the Net Positive Project comes in.

2020 Legacy of Good Plan Annual Progress Report: Net Positive 
Explore the net positive section of Dell FY19 2020 Legacy of Good Plan Annual Update at https://corporate.delltechnologies.com/en-us/social-impact/reporting/fy19-csr-report.htm

 

Content from this campaign

Responsible Production & Consumption

Advancing and Assessing Our Legacy of Good
How do we quantify the positive social and environmental benefits of using Dell technology? How do we quantify the negative impacts? And how do we compare the two? We’ve been diligently pursuing the answers to these questions as we work toward Dell’s biggest 2020 Legacy of Good goal: By 2020, the good that will come from our technology will be 10x what it takes to create and use it.

Environment

Dell Looks at Earth Overshoot Day
This coming Wednesday (August 1), humanity will hit Earth Overshoot Day – the day when we have used more resources than Planet Earth can regenerate. Every day from now until the end of the year, we are spending past our limit. Thankfully, the planet has a buffer (a natural bank account, if you will) to pay those bills. But we are carrying a balance, and that balance is getting bigger and bigger.

Research, Reports & Publications

Using Open Data to Address the World’s Mobility Challenges
The keys to developing smarter transportation infrastructure lie not only in the physical world of roads, rail and bridges, but also in the invisible world of data — specifically, open mobility data, which is the aggregated data that transit agencies make publicly available. This data tracks stoplight timing, traffic patterns and transit routes, and can be used by everyone from transportation officials looking to redesign routes to software companies developing new navigation applications.

Innovation & Technology

Hacking for a Better Commute
Dell and Forum for the Future, sponsored a hackathon as part of New York City’s Open Data Week. The Open Data L-train Innovation Challenge asked participants to create ideas that focused on using open data to help mitigate and manage the effects of the planned shutdown of the Canarsie Tunnel in April 2019.

Sustainable Development Goals

How Dell Is Considering the Use of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Framework to Move Business Forward
One of the perks of working in corporate responsibility is getting to think about how really big problems that seem far out on the horizon can be impacted by businesses today. As exciting as it can be to think about our role, it can also seem quite daunting.

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