In February 2012, IBM had setup a Centre of Excellence for Smarter Commerce at the India Software Lab, Bangalore, India. By bringing together a powerful combination of technical expertise, domain knowledge, and best practices from IBM’s extensive global engagements, the CoE will offer innovative solutions to automate and accelerate the purchasing, marketing, sales and customer service functions to organizations across India, South Asia and Asia Pacific.
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It would be great if we could hear/see about student projects here on videos — you are encouraged to collect segments and edit them to tell the other teams about what you have going on at your school. Here’s an article about how it’s working as a research journal.
Oxfam International – another potential partner

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Modeled after the United Nations Millennium Development Goals “MDGs”
Students for a Smarter Planet seeks to engage as many students as possible from across the disciplinary spectrum. In this attempt we have created a program called MDGs which is focused on targeting students who are involved in artistic programs of study at Universities.
Traditionally professional development student organizations are geared towards liberal arts, business, engineering and trade based professions. We want to make sure every student has the possibility for professional development, no matter their interests. We also want to ensure our message of sustainable development to build a smarter planet reaches those students as well. Continue Reading »