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DOT-IBM Corporate Service Corps in Turkey

DOT has been delivering the Corporate Service Corps program in Turkey in partnership with IBM since 2008.

DOT selects cities and host partner organizations from the public, private, academia and NGO sectors and develops assignments for IBM volunteers that contribute to economic and social development in Turkey. The IBM teams undertake 4-week assignments in Turkey with each deployment complemented by 40 hours of pre-service work and post-experience follow-up.

Since implementation, DOT Turkey has facilitated the deployment of six IBM volunteer teams, each consisting of 10-15 IBM leaders from around the globe.

The assignments included working with UNDP Turkey, State Planning Organization, Corporate Volunteers Association, Regional Governors, Technoparks, Chambers of Commerce, Small and Medium Enterprises, Universities,  and Community Based Organizations.

DeploymentProject
Turkey Team 1 - June 2009 Mersin
Turkey Team 2 - October 2009 Mersin
Turkey Team 3 - March 2010 Gaziantep
Turkey Team 4 - May 2010 Gaziantep
Turkey Team 5 - October 2010 Malatya
Turkey Team 6 - April 2011 Kayseri
Turkey Team 7 - October 2011 Hatay

About the DOT-IBM Corporate Service Corps

The IBM Corporate Service Corps is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative that is integrated into IBM's global business strategy and delivered in partnership with Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT).

The program empowers high achieving IBM employees to perform community-driven economic development projects in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, working at the intersection of business, technology and society. IBM selects top management prospects and then trains and dispatches these leaders to emerging markets around the world. Participants spend four weeks in groups of 10 to 15 to help solve economic and social problems of their selected communality. Teams work collaboratively with their government and community counterparts to understand how to implement socially responsible business practices with measurable results in a global context.

The DOT-IBM Corporate Service Corps program focuses on several priority issues:

  1. Economic Development and Innovation
  2. Access to ICT
  3. Raising Global Standards in Education
  4. Broadening Cultural Awareness
  5. Promoting Openness and Transparency

For more information about the IBM Corporate Service Corps, please visit IBM's CSR website.

Social Enterprise Partnerships

DOT has partnered with IBM to implement a global Corporate Volunteerism program throughout Turkey and many other countries.

Social Enterprise Partnerships like the one DOT has forged with IBM bring together the assets and objectives of a corporation (IBM) with the local knowledge and delivery experience of a social enterprise (DOT).

The results of these partnerships can be substantial. Social and developmental impact is delivered more effectively by the experts whose business is social, economic or environmental change; the corporation gains local knowledge through a new lens, good will with less risk, brand awareness in new markets, employee pride and ultimately competitive advantage; the social enterprise, through the extension of its programming, expands its social and business goals.

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