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...unrest and arson attacks affected many suburbs around Paris, the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux to the south of the French capital was largely spared. There, Mayor Andr? Santini has bet heavily on technology infrastructure in a successful bid to attract international firms such as Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. He's also used technology to interact more openly with Issy's 63,000 residents. Issy was the first French town to start an Internet-based local TV service, and last December it held an online election for councilors for Issy's four districts. Candidates campaigned via their own blog...
...CHOOSE A CAUSE Cisco Systems' $40 million pledge--$10 million from the chairman and $2 million from the CEO--to rebuild Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast schools underscored the company's commitment to educational reform. That followed on the heels of a 2003 Jordan Education Initiative, spearheaded and partially funded by Cisco, to offer Internet-enabled learning to the developing world. Volunteers were also sent to Ethiopia to teach computer and Internet skills...
...frustrations with Harvard began with his freshman housing assignment. On his application, he had asked fervently for at least one black or Latino roommate. Instead, he got three white Republicans. His roommate, Yves-Georges A. Joseph II ’06, praises “Cisco,” as Perez is known, for converting his complaints with Harvard into concrete advocacy. “He turns his words into actions,” Joseph writes in an e-mail, describing the many weekends Perez has devoted to community organizing. “I feel like I have to take...
NAME: Noni Allwood COMPANY: Cisco TITLE: Director of gender diversity...
...excluded in the work environment," she says. She retaliated by overcompensating, taking on ever bigger tasks, traveling, working day and night, until she ran the company's worldwide systems programs. Today she tries to change the equation by working on a program to introduce underprivileged girls to IT as Cisco's director of global gender diversity...