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· EnviroInfo (International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection) > e.g.
o EnviroInfo 2009 (9-11 September 2009, Berlin)
o EnviroInfo 2008 (10-12 September 2008, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany; Presentations available) > e.g.
§ Programme > e.g.
· Wednesday >
o Keynote: Stefan Schaltegger, Leuphana University of Lüneburg: Corporate Sustainability - Requirements for Information Management and Computer Support (.mov)
o Keynote: Ralf Isenmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI): Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology (.mov)
o WS - ICT-based Corporate Communication and Sustainability Reporting
§ Chair: Ralf Isenmann, Claus Lang-Koetz, Jorge Marx Gómez
§ >
· Automated Reporting of Corporate Sustainability Data - An Analog of Automated Internet Sustainability Reporting (J. Emil Morhardt)
· Solving Environmental Management and Public Relation Issues by Combining Industrial Environmental Information Systems with Automated Environmental Reporting (Daniel Süpke, Nabil Allam, Jorge Marx Gómez)
· Corporate Sustainability Reporting Towards Sustainability Network of Corporate Communication (Andreas Solsbach, Jorge Marx Gómez)
· Sustainability Reporting à la carte – Concept and Implementation of a Software Tool with Shopping Cart Functionality (Ralf Isenmann, Jorge Marx Gómez, Daniel Süpke)
· Key Performance Indicators for Sustainable Reporting According to NACE (Jiří Hřebíček, Karel Kisza, Matej Stefanik)
· Environmental Markup Language (EML): A Material and Energy Balancing XML Schema Definition (Henner Graubitz, Hans-Knud Arndt, Andreas Dammert)
· How Green Is the Web? Visualising the Power Quality of Websites (Stefan Naumann, Sascha Gresk, Kerstin Schäfer)
o EnviroInfo 2007 (Warsaw, Poland; 12-15 September 2007; Environmental Informatics and Systems Research) >> e.g.
§ Using Internet Technologies and Web Services for Sustainability Reporting: Research Initiative, Agenda, Early Results (Jorge Marx Gómez, Jan Brosowski, Hans-Knud Arndt, Ralf Isenmann, Monika Schappert)
§ Sustainability Reporting Topic Maps: An Approach to Support Stakeholder Inclusiveness (Henner Graubitz, Hans-Knud Arndt, Rene Klesinski)
o EnviroInfo 2006 (Graz, Austria; 6-8 September 2006; EnviroInfo's 20th anniversary) > e.g.
§ Program (Papers are not available online) >
· Full Papers > e.g.
o Sustainability Reporting Using the eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) (Hans-Knud Arndt, Ralf Isenmann, Jan Brosowski, Inke Thiessen, Jorge Marx-Gomez (DE))
· Short Papers > e.g.
o Workflow-supported Creation and Administration of XML-based Sustainability Reports (Ralf Isenmann, Tobias Jordan, Jorge Marx Gómez (DE))
o EnviroInfo 2005 (Brno, Czech Republic)
o EnviroInfo 2004 (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) > e.g.
§ Full Papers > by Theme >
· Corporate Sustainability Communication and Reporting (7 Papers)
· EA-SDI »Environmental Accounting and Sustainable Development Indicators« (Czech Republic; Website in English)
o International seminars and conferences (Proceedings available; Topics include also interactive, online corporate environmental reporting)
o Partners:
§ CSU Czech Statistical Office, Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic, Charles University, Masaryk University, University of Pardubice
· ACCA & Next Step Consulting >>>
o Environmental, Social and Sustainability Reporting on the World Wide Web: A Guide to Best Practice (.pdf, October 2001, 44 pp.; Or at GreenBiz)
o Two Tomorrows is the name of the sustainability consultancy formed by the merger of Csrnetwork and Sd3 on 1 January 2009.
o >>>
§ csrnetwork (UK CSR Consultancy) > e.g.
· News and views > Latest news and press releases > Archives > 2005 >
o Online technology holds key to effective CSR reporting yet it's severely under-used (11 May 2005)
· SustainAbility > e.g.
o Research & Advocacy >
§ By Theme:
o The Internet Reporting Report (Engaging Stakeholders 1999; .pdf has 28 pp.)
· Trends in online sustainability reporting (a joint research project of GRI and Radley Yeldar; Published on 14 april 2009)
o See also
§ Related articles at:
· GRI: Trends in online sustainability reporting – new research launched by GRI and Radley Yeldar (29 May 2009)
· SocialFunds: Companies Are Slow to Adopt Interactive Technologies in GRI Reporting (21 May 2009) - Study by the Global Reporting Initiative finds that while most companies provide sustainability information on their web sites, access by users can be hampered by inconsistent terminology.
· Environmental Leader: Digital Sustainability Reporting Has Benefits, Pitfalls (20 May 2009)
§ Related discussion at Development Crossing
· RY Radley Yeldar (London, UK)
o »We help our clients communicate through a range of specialist services including brand identity, corporate reporting, corporate responsibility, digital media, internal communication, marketing communications and online investor relations.«
o > e.g.
§ Our Services: e.g.
· Corporate Reporting >> e.g.
o The Report Leadership group (CIMA, PwC, RY, Tomkins) > e.g.
· H&H Webranking is Europe's leading survey of corporate websites. It has been conducted annually since 1997. Each year approximately 500 websites are reviewed. > e.g.
o Products >
§ H&H Spotlight Reports >
· Corporate Social Responsibility
§ Articles >> e.g.
· Companies continue to invest in CSR (1 March 2010)
· The best companies in Europe for CSR communication (17 February 2009)
· Communicating CSR through social media (23 September 2008)
· The French H&H Webranking result published (30 January 2008)
o The survey shows that French companies have an edge in presenting CSR related information but overall French companies have some way to go, in order to reach up to European Best Practice standard.
· Finnish companies best in Europe in communicating CSR (20 November 2007)
· Lundquist srl (Milan, Italy) > e.g.
o What We Do > also
o Research > e.g.
§ CSR Online Awards Global Leaders >
· CSR Online Awards Global Leaders 2009 - Executive Summary (.pdf, 12 pp.)
o See also:
§ Article at Business Respect: Are global CSR leaders failing to use the web effectively? (2 November 2009; By Mallen Baker)
§ Article at SLM Sustainable Life Media: Social Media Under-Utilized in Sustainability Reporting (27 October 2009)
§ Article at IR Magazine: Top companies poor at online CSR engagement (23 October 2009; By Robin Froggatt-Smith) - Disclosure good but communication lacking, report finds
§ Guardian Sustainability Blog: Damning report into online sustainability reporting (22 October 2009; By Jo Confino) - Major companies around the world are failing to engage with stakeholders despite the interactive opportunities provided by the web
· Lundquist evaluated how well 91 members of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index use their corporate websites as a platform for CSR communication. Each website was assessed using a set of 76 evaluation criteria, drawn up on the basis of a survey conducted by Lundquist of 184 CSR professionals and sector experts from 30 different countries.
§ CSR Online Awards Italy
· See also
o CSR Europe: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena tops Italian ranking on web communication on CSR (28 March 2008) - Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena achieved top ranking in the first Italian "2008 Csr Online Awards" for web communication on CSR issues, based on research conducted by Lundquist, the Italian subsidiary of Halvarsson & Halvarsson, a Swedish financial communication agency.
§ See also:
· SlideShare >> Lundquist Srl >
o Lundquist CSR Online Awards
o Blog > e.g.
§ Integrated reporting and the corporate website (16 April 2010; By James Osborne)
§ From online CSR report to online CSR reporting (29 January 2010; By James Osborne, Head of CSR communications)
· Jungle Minds (Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Also English version of website) »is a leading internet consultancy agency. We advise the top 200 companies in the Netherlands and Belgium in internet-related matters.« (ex Jungle Rating) > e.g.
o English >
§ Articles >> e.g.
· Four important insights for communicating CSR online (25 March 2009)
· Internet and sustainability: remain silent, listen or engage in dialogue? (29 September 2008)
· BASF best in class in online sustainability communications (21 November 2007)
· 4 tips for a sustainable corporate website (27 March 2007)
· Research findings: quality of online sustainability reporting (13 March 2007)
· 5 essential online communications trends in 2006 (12 January 2007)
· 20 valuable tips for online sustainability (2 May 2006)
· Online sustainability reporting, Europe’s largest companies (19 April 2006)
· Nexxar (Vienna, Austria)
o Step by step Nexxar became the leading provider for high-end HTML financial reports in Western Europe.
o > also
§ Market Research > also
· CSR Reports = Online Presentation of German CSR Reports - Quality of online CSR reports within DAX 30 companies (July 2009)
· LGM Interactive (Berlin, Germany)
o LGM Interactive (LGMi) is an agency that specializes in green communications. We focus on interactive solutions for companies, organizations, and governments with activities in the fields of CSR, social change, and environmental awareness.
o > e.g.
§ What We Do > also
· Online Reports:
o Still only using PDFs? Develop an online version, reach a wider audience, and make a bigger splash.
§ CSR Reports
· The Group (London) »We're an online corporate communications consultancy« > e.g.
o Resources >
§ Online reports directory
o The group blog > e.g.
§ Majority of FTSE 100 companies now choose HTML Annual and CR reports (8 October 2009; By Frank Harkin)
§ CR reporting – which way now? (9 April 2009; By Martina Stansbie)
§ Approaches to CSR reporting: Timberland goes for quarterly reports and a social media platform (30 October 2008; By Martina Stansbie)
· SalterBaxter »one of the UK's leading creative consulting businesses« >
o About our business >
§ Our work > e.g.
· Corporate reporting
· Digital
§ Research >
· Directions
o UK's most comprehensive annual analysis of corporate responsibility reporting trends
· Directions supplements
o Bi-monthly issue-based corporate reporting articles
· Black Sun (UK) »We are a strategic, marketing and communications agency. Our mission is to help organisations build more rewarding relationships with their customers, investors and other corporate stakeholders.« >
§ What We Do
· We aim to create integrated communications platforms for clients by bringing corporate reporting, corporate responsibility and digital communications together. We believe that working together in harmony rather than in isolation will ensure that their sum is greater than their parts.
· Likemind (London; Simon Lake, Managing Director)
o We are 41 people (as of October 2009), based in West London who get companies closer to investors, employees, customers, communities, journalists and regulators - even to those trying very hard not to listen. We work in the UK and Europe, producing corporate communications in print and online, for blue-chip companies and organisations in all sectors.
· CO3 »is a CSR consultancy« (London, UK) > e.g.
o Blog >
§ Innovative approaches to online CSR reporting (20 October 2009; By William Haviland)
· The Centre for Sustainable Design (UK) >
o Resources >
§ Information and Order form >
· Contents >
o Environmental Communications >
§ Guidelines covering the project management, design and production or CERs (Corporate Environmental Reports)
· A checklist has been developed to support companies through the process of planning, developing and implementing Electronic Environmental Reporting.
· csr-reporting - thoughts and insights about social and environmental responsibility and sustainability reporting (By Elaine Cohen, BeyondBusiness, Israel) >> e.g.
o Where's the popcorn ? (5 February 2010; Relating to the Solar Century's (video) CSR Report 2007-2008)
o The infinite possibilities of online sustainability reporting (16 January 2010)
· BeyondBusiness (Israel, Ramat Gan) »The leading social-environmental responsibility and sustainability consulting firm in Israel« (Also English version of website) > e.g.
o Reports and Transparency > e.g.
§ The 2009 Transparency Index of Israeli Companies
· May 2009 saw the publication of the first Transparency Index in Israel.
· This is the first ever Index of its kind in Israel and uses a proprietary methodology aligned with the GRI Reporting Framework to measure the website transparency of the leading 100 publicly traded Companies of the Tel Aviv 100 Index.
· See also
o related blog post by Elaine Cohen: The Transparency Index 2010 (30 April 2010)
· Europa >> European Commission >> Enterprise and Industry >
o Policy highlights >
§ Sustainable and responsible business >
· Corporate social responsibility >
o Reporting and disclosure >
§ Workshops on the disclosure of environmental, social and governance information (September 2009 - February 2010) > e.g.
· Background documents:
o 2. Surveys and reports on trends and practices:
§ Trends and Best Practice in Online CSR and Sustainability Reporting, CSR Europe (.pdf, September 2009, 31 pp.)
· Internetbasierte Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung (Germany; English version is under construction ??)
o This website is developed by Department of BiOR – University of Kaiserlautern
o Heiner Mueller Merbach, Ralf Isenmann
· See also:
o Universität Bremen (Germany) >>
§ IPMI - Institut für Projektmanagement und Innovation >>
· Prof. Dr. Ralf Isenmann
· Universität Oldenburg >>
o Department für Informatik >>
§ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jorge Marx Gómez
· Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Germany) >>
o INFU Institut für Umweltkommunikation = Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication > e.g.
§ Publikationen & Vorträge >>
· Nr.36: Blanke, Moritz; Godemann, Jasmin; Herzig, Christian (2007): Internetgestützte Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung - Eine empirische Untersuchung der Unternehmen des DAX30 (43 pp.; In German)
o Or .pdf at CSM Centre for Sustainability Management
o Or English version .pdf at CRRC (15-17 July 2008)
o See also:
§ related news at csr-news.net: Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung im Internet wird immer selbstverständlicher für DAX30-Unternehmen (23 October 2007)
· Nr.24: Blanke, Moritz; Godemann, Jasmin; Herzig, Christian; Nierling, Linda; Rauer , Felix (2004): Wie nutzen große Unternehmen das Internet, um über Nachhaltigkeit zu kommunizieren? (.pdf, 53 pp.; In German) - Studie zur internetgestützten Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung von DAX 30 Unternehmen.
o CSM Centre for Sustainability Management > e.g.
§ Lehrstuhl Nachhaltigkeits-management (Prof. Dr. Stefan Schaltegger) > e.g.
· Publikationen
· Forschung >
o Messung, Information und Kommunikation:
§ Projekte
§ Publikationen
· CSR News (Based in Hückeswagen, Germany) >
o News = csr-news.net >> e.g.
§ Kirchhoff-Studie: Internet gewinnt für CSR-Kommunikation an Bedeutung (23 October 2007)
§ See also:
· Kirchhoff Consult AG (Hamburg, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Suzhou; also English version of website) >
o Unternehmenskommunikation >
o Aktuelles & Publikationen >
§ Publikationen >
· Studien >
o Internet gewinnt für CSR-Kommunikation an Bedeutung (11 October 2007; .pdf has 48 pp.) - Studie der Kirchhoff Consult AG: internationaler Vergleich von CSR-Kommunikation im Internet
· Turku School of Economics >>
o Giuliano Noci: Practices on e-nvironmental reporting (.pdf, 2003, 13 pp.)
· EECZ Environment-oriented Enterprise Consultancy Zhejiang (China; English and Chinese versions of website; A Sino-German technical cooperation programme, GTZ & Zhejiang Environmental Protection Bureau; 2002-2008) >
o Download > Cross-cutting Topics > e.g.
§ Research Summary - CSR Communication in China: A Survey of Online CSR Communication in Domestic and Foreign Companies Operating in China (.pdf, 2007, 6 pp.)
· From 16 October to 7 December 2006, EECZ conducted a comparative survey of the publicly available (online) corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of the 30 largest (by revenue) foreign and 30 largest and best recognised domestic companies operating in China.
· The EMC (Electronic Media Commendation) is awarded by ACCA & CorporateRegister.com
o ACCA >>
§ Sustainability >
· The Awards >
o The ACCA UK Awards for Sustainability Reporting >> e.g.
§ The 2005 awards >
· Report of the Judges 2005 (.pdf, 36 pp.)
o about EMC see pp. 12, 18, 19
§ The 2004 Awards >
· Report of the Judges 2004 (.pdf, 44 pp.)
o about EMC see pp. 22, 23
o See also: ESRA The European Sustainability Reporting Association
§ Our aim is to improve Sustainability Reporting by sharing trends and best practice across European countries.
§ > e.g.
· individual country-reports: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
· CICA Chartered Accountants of Canada > e.g.
o News >
§ Upcoming events >
· Corporate Reporting Awards >
o Judges' Comments Publications > also
§ Award for (& judges' comment) Reporting on the Internet; Excellence in Electronic Disclosure
· See also:
o Related news at CSRwire: PotashCorp Earns CICA Top Honors in Three Reporting Categories (4 December 2008)
§ Also The Award of Excellence in Electronic Disclosure
o related article at IR Web Report: Canada’s top investor relations websites awarded (7 December 2007; By Dominic Jones)
o Research & Guidance >
§ Research Activities >> Corporate Reporting to Stakeholders
· »...Electronic disclosure and web-based reporting of both financial and non-financial information are now commonplace...«
· > e.g.
o Corporate Reporting to Stakeholders - Research Study (June 2008; .pdf has 190 pp.) >
§ Chapter 12: Corporate Reporting on the Internet (pp. 137-153)
· See also
o related article at PwC: Effective on-line reporting: Chartered Accountants and investor relations officers team up to provide advice
o >> also
§ Blog
· This blog provides a focal point for disseminating research and guidance materials that enhance communications between an organization and its various stakeholder groups. The emphasis is on financial information, such as performance reporting, and non-financial information, such as corporate social responsibilities. The information may be conveyed through various means, for example, paper-based annual reports and Internet-based communications, such as websites.
· > e.g.
o Labels: Electronic disclosure, Web-based disclosures, XBRL
· IR Web Report (based in Toronto, Canada) »was created in late 2000 to research online investor relations practices around the world and advise public companies on best practices.« > also
o Rankings >
§ Best IR Websites
· Bowen Craggs is an independent website effectiveness consultancy > e.g.
o Best practice library > e.g.
§ Corporate social responsibility
o FT Index > e.g.
§ Leaders by metric > e.g.
· Serving society
o See also
§ related article at PwC: How well do websites serve their various audiences?
§ related news at WBCSD: WBCSD Member Companies Top “Serving Society” Category in Corporate Website Effectiveness Index (29 March 2007)
· Claremont McKenna College (USA, California) >
o Research Institutes >
§ Roberts Environmental Center
· The Pacific Sustainability Index (PSI) is a system developed at the Roberts Environmental Center to score environmental and social disclosure and performance presented by companies on their web sites
· Pacific Sustainability Index (PSI) Scores is a benchmarking tool for online sustainability reporting
· AltaTerra Research is a research consultancy specializing in sustainable business and the commercial marketplace for clean technology solutions. Through research reports, executive events and advisory services, AltaTerra helps forward-looking organizations improve resource-efficiency in their operations and capitalize on new 'green' market opportunities. From our headquarters in Silicon Valley, we have been serving a global base of corporate, institutional, and government clients since 2007. >
o Events >>
§ Greening the Company Website: A New Era in Sustainability Reporting (11 May 2010)
o Reports >
§ Greening the Company Website
· See also
o Related article at GreenBiz: How to Make Your CSR Reports More Engaging (10 May 2010; By Matthew Wheeland)
o Related article at Environmental Leader: Eight Essentials for ‘Greening’ the Company Website (25 February 2010)
o related news: Companies Can Improve Sustainability Reporting Through Their Websites (8 January 2010)
§ AltaTerra Research is pleased to announce the release of a new report for marketing, communications and IT professionals, entitled, "Greening the Company Website: A New Era in Sustainability Reporting.” (by Jaclyn Pitera and Kathleen Acuff). This report examines the growing trend in leading companies to use corporate websites to better communicate with stakeholders and engage them in sustainability efforts.
§ A summary (5 pp.) of the full report (20 pp.) is available for free (free registration required)
· Emerald >> e.g.
o Article: Communicating sustainablity: A web content analysis of North American, Asian and European firms
§ Author(s): Donna Louise Gill, Sonia Jane Dickinson, Arno Scharl
§ Journal of Communication Management, 2008, Issue: 3, Page: 243 - 262
· BW BusinessWeek >> e.g.
o How to Put Sustainability on the Books (22 May 2009; By Celeste LeCompte) - Companies are becoming more interested in sophisticated software to manage and report corporate social responsibility data
· Environmental Finance (Monthly magazine; To subscribe)
o Environmental Finance is a monthly magazine covering the ever-increasing impact of environmental issues on the lending, insurance, investment and trading decisions affecting industry. It is the only global publication dedicated to this fast-changing area.
o > e.g.
§ Archive >
· Subject: e.g.
o Information Technology
§ >> e.g.
· Information management - Bringing risks to account (from October 2005 issue)
o »As environmental issues rise up the regulatory and financial agenda, large companies are facing converging pressures to better manage non-financial information flows. Mark Nicholls reports on how they should respond.«
· Ethical Corporation »Magazine, Conferences, Reports« > e.g.
o Special Reports >
§ The impact of technology on the ethics of business (22 May 2007; .pdf has 21 pp.; Sponsors: Enablon, Proventia, credit360) - The online technology revolution - Business ethics 2.0
· ...Big companies are riding the technological wave and improving performance in many of the areas that are key to the wider sustainable economy debate: reporting, supply chain monitoring, consumer interaction and employee empowerment.
· ...this report also looks at the potential for online training, using online games in communications and how to cope with blogging, everyone’s new favourite pastime.
o Founder's blog (Toby Webb) > e.g.
§ What do Timberland, Cadbury, Seventh Generation, Newmont mining, Adidas, Guardian Media Group and Marks and Spencer all have in common? (1 November 2009)
o »Search« might be useful.
§ >??> Browse By Category > e.g.
· Non-Financial Reporting > e.g.
o Annual reports – Time to really go »live« (19 October 2006; Columnists; Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross)
§ >> e.g.
· Columnists: New media – Online reporting’s virtues and pitfalls (17 October 2008; By Kathee Rebernak) - Companies that take on the many challenges of online sustainability reporting will find it well worth the effort
· Columnists: Online communication – Corporate social responsibility 2.0 (5 April 2007; By Solitaire Townsend)
· Mallen Baker's Blog >> e.g.
o Who's reading your online CSR report? (19 June 2009)
· Guardian Unlimited (UK) >
o On this site:
§ Sustainability (sustainability reporting website for Guardian News & Media) > e.g.
· Blog > e.g.
o Companies fearful of embracing open online sustainability debate (14 October 2009; By Jo Confino) - Why businesses are failing to use web 2.0 to become more transparent in their CSR reporting
§ I spent some time this week presenting our new sustainability reporting website to a group of senior CSR executives as part of a roundtable discussion organised by Two Tomorrows, the consultancy that does our auditing…
§ See also
· related post by Mallen Baker: Are companies scared of open debate? (23 October 2009)
· FT.com = Financial Times > e.g.
o Comment & analysis >
§ Columnists >
· David Bowen >
o CSR advice for Anna Ford (4 May 2006)
§ »A little bit of cross-pollination could provide a social responsibility website that is fair, open and a good read. Just a thought for any newsreaders wondering how to get to grips with their new directorial responsibilities.«
o Companies >
§ By sector >
· Financial services >>
o Big Four call for financial reports shake-up (7 November 2006; By Barney Jopson)
§ The world’s biggest accounting firms will join forces on Wednesday to call for a radical overhaul of how companies report performance, declaring the system used to communicate with investors “broken”.
§ Corporate reporting has been largely untouched by the internet and digitisation, both of which have revolutionised the way companies operate.
o Digital Business >
§ Can Web 2.0 revolutionise corporate responsibility? (10 July 2008; By Steve Rochlin and James Farrar)
· See also related article at Policy Innovations
· FSN Business Systems News for Finance and IT Professionals (UK) > e.g.
o KPI / Environment > also
§ XBRL extended into environmental reporting (14 April 2008)
o Financial Reporting > e.g.
§ Performance Reporting under the EU Accounts Modernisation Directive (12 December 2005)
· ICAEW (UK) »The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales« > e.g.
o Technical & Business Topics >
§ Topics >
· Financial reporting >
o See also:
§ Information for Better Markets
· James Governor's Monkchips - An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence >> e.g.
o Six Ways To Make CSR Reporting and Strategy Not Suck (15 July 2010)
o Sustainability and CSR Reporting: There’s An App For That. A Letter to SAP and the future. (14 July 2010)
· GreenBiz.com > e.g.
o Engage:
§ News >> e.g.
· Dow Chemical Wins ESS Excellence Award for Environmental Reporting (5 May 2008)
· Best Practices for Online Reporting in Corporate Responsibility (29 April 2002; Copyright 2002 Ethical Corporation magazine)
§ Blogs >> e.g.
· Harness the Power of the Web for Stakeholder Dialogues (2 July 2010; By Erika Roshdi, IMS Consulting)
· EL Environmental Leader »Energy & Environmental News for Business« (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) > e.g.
o All Topics:
§ Hi-Tech
o >> e.g.
§ Sainsbury Reports on CR as part of Quarterly Financial Updates (18 January 2010)
§ Study Looks At Effectiveness of Green Communications (16 October 2008; imc² recently released a white paper on how effectively S&P 100 companies are communicating their sustainability efforts)
§ Sustainability Reporting Still Used As PR Tool (16 September 2008; Relating to the research Measuring the Transparency of Environmental Sustainability Reporting Through Websites of Fortune 50 Corporations; By KDPaine & Partners)
· See also related articles at
o SLM Sustainable Life Media: Study: Fortune 50 See Sustainability Reports As PR Tools (16 September 2008)
o GreenBiz: Fortune 50 Lacks Transparency in Web-Based Environmental Reporting (15 September 2008)
§ BASF Combines Financial, Sustainability Reports - Emissions Up 10% (12 March 2008)
§ XBRL Could Push Sustainability Reporting Into The Realm Of The CFO (21 December 2007)
§ BASF Scores Big On Sustainability Communications Report Card (28 November 2007)
· CSR Asia – Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia >> e.g.
o Is online reporting the way forward? (26 May 2019; By Rikke Netterstrom)
· Policy Innovations »online magazine features ideas for a fairer globalization and a network of innovators.« (project is based at the Carnegie Council in New York City.) >
o Events >
§ Web 2.0 and Corporate Accountability (19 November 2009, New York, NY)
· This expert meeting will be an opportunity to discuss the emerging findings from a 6-month research project on web 2.0 and corporate accountability launched by the Harvard Kennedy School's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative in July 2009 and conducted by Sea Change Media.
o See:
§ Harvard Kennedy School's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative (CSRI) >>
· The Accountability Web: Weaving Corporate Accountability and Interactive Technology (.pdf, May 2010, 94 pp.; By Bill Baue and Marcy Murninghan)
o Also at Policy Innovations
· Participants: Bill Baue, Marcy Murninghan, Jane Nelson
· See: Transcript (with Audio, Video; Or here)
· Volans - The Business of Social Innovation (Co-founder: John Elkington) >
o Pathways to Scale >
§ The Transparent Economy (May 2010; .pdf has 52 pp.) - Six tigers stalk the global recovery—and how to tame them
· What is the future for corporate transparency and sustainability reporting—sometimes called ‘non-‘ or ‘extra-financial’ reporting? This is the question we tackle in The Transparent Economy, a joint report by Volans and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
· IR Integrated Reporting
o This Web site and the integrated reporting movement is rooted in a spirit of collaboration that arose during a meeting of investors, standard setters, companies, accounting bodies, UN representatives and civil society at St. James’s Palace in London on September 11, 2009. This meeting was jointly convened by the Global Reporting Initiative and The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Initiative.
o About »integrated reporting« see also:
§ LinkedIn >>
· Integrated Reporting Group
§ Wikipedia >>
§ Twitter: Search for: #integratedreporting
§ Wiley >>
· One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (March 2010; By Robert G. Eccles, Michael Krzus)
o See also
§ excerpts at Scribd
§ Article by Robert G. Eccles at The Huffington Post: Going Green in Annual Reports (28 May 2010) - … Integrated reporting is a simple idea, but it is an idea whose time has come. Voluntary filing programs are an easy and practical way to make this idea the common practice in companies' external reporting. It is now up to regulators to make it happen.
§ Blog post at Harvard Business Review: The Annual Report as Sustainability's Secret Weapon (19 April 2010; By Robert G. Eccles)
§ Commentary at CSRwire: "One Report" - Is there a Transparency Panacea? (13 April 2010; By Elaine Cohen)
§ Related e-mail interview at HBS Working Knowledge: One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting (12 April 2010)
§ Related article by Robert Eccles at RI Responsible Investor: The quest for the ‘Holy Grail’ of integrated financial and CSR reporting (30 March 2010)
· XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language)
o »Companies could also use XBRL to collect the data they need to produce social and environmental reports and respond to questionnaires.«
· European Commission >>>
o Reporting and disclosure >
§ Workshops on the disclosure of environmental, social and governance information (September 2009 - February 2010) > e.g.
· XBRL – the medium is the message (.pdf, 8 pp.; By Ralf Frank, XBRL, EFFAS, DVFA)
· GRI Global Reporting Initiative > e.g.
o Reporting Framework >
§ G3 Guidelines >
· XBRL = G3 Guidelines in XBRL
o The XBRL taxonomy for the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines sets the stage for reporting to move into a digital format, thereby increasing the efficiency of data acquisition and ease of its comparison.
o See also related news: New tool for data sharing: XBRL taxonomy for G3 released (29 March 2007)
o See also
§ Related posts at Random Comments (Blog by Daniel Roberts, RAAS Consulting, Past Chairman of the XBRL US Steering committee):
· CSR/Sustainability Reporting: 6 recent myths (15 April 2010)
o These myths include: also
§ CSR/Sustainability reporting in XBRL
· XBRL & GRI - “you might think that the hippies got control” (24 November 2009)
§ related article at SocialFunds: If You Tag It, It Will Be Used: Sustainability Reporting in XBRL (16 April 2007)
· Weeks after the latest SEC roundtable on interactive data, the Global Reporting Initiative releases a draft taxonomy of XBRL tags mapped to G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines.
o Current Priorities >
§ Future Trends > also
· Links >
o Technology and electronic reporting
o Leadership
o Indicators and Principles
o Sustainability Indexes and Investment
· See also
o related news: Future Trends in Sustainability Reporting: GRI’s new research program (15 June 2010)
§ Several topics will be covered under this program including:
· Integrated reporting
· Regulations
· New report formats
o News & Events >
§ Latest Press Releases > e.g.
· Global Reporting Initiative works with socially responsible investment researchers to improve data comparability (5 May 2008)
§ Newsletter >
· News 2008 >
o First GRI reporter tags report with XBRL (16 December 2008) - Italian Bank, Banca Monte Paschi dei Siena, has taken the first step towards making XBRL a routine tool to support the exchange of information between companies and investors, by tagging their most recent GRI sustainability report using the GRI G3 XBRL taxonomy…
o XBRL technology is on the move (25 November 2008)
· News 2007 >
o From XBRL to harmonization: recent events in Munich, Paris and London (21 June 2007)
o Podcast: What is XBRL, anyway? (April 2007)
o Who are you? >
§ Investor >
· Towards common data taxonomy
o This taxonomy will help fill a significant gap in the area of non-financial performance for organizations who wish to use of XBRL.
o See also, e.g.:
§ GRITV's Channel (GRI – Global Reporting Initiative) on YouTube >>
· Sustainability Reporting and XBRL Part 1 – 9 (from Amsterdam Conference 2010)
§ Rivet Software Blog (Stewart McKie):
· Search: XBRL and GRI
· Tag:
o GRI
· Category: XBRL
§ Article at WFE - The World Federation of Exchanges: Integrated Reports Voluntary Filing (10 June 2010; By Robert G. Eccles and Mervyn King)
§ Related news at CSR Europe: Montepaschi Group publishes CSR Report 2007 in XBRL language (12 February 2009)
· AECA Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas (Madrid, Spain) >
o Investigacion > Comisiones de Estudio >
§ Responsabilidad Social Corporativa
o >>
§ Repositorio de Informes XBRL de RSC > also
· Notas de Prensa
§ Repositorio de Informes XBRL - RSC (with some further links, articles)
· Entitades (3, as of November 2009): AECA, Caja Navarra, Étia
· Corporate Responsibility Magazine = CR Magazine (New name of CRO Magazine; SharedXpertise, LLC; Edison, NJ) >> e.g.
o Financial Reporting: With XBRL, It's Tag You’re It (16 October 2008; By James C. Hyatt) - In the name of transparency, standardized business reporting to get an interactive signature
· RAAS Consulting Ltd (Richard Anderson, Daniel Roberts) »Risk Management, Sustainability, XBRL and Innovation« > e.g.
· Information Systems for Environmental Sustainability (Blog by Nigel Melville, assistant professor of business information technology at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan) >> e.g.
o Real-time sustainability data streams: Green XBRL and XML (13 July 2010)
· EFFAS European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (Head Office in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) > e.g.
o Commissions >
§ CESG - Environmental, Social and Governance Issues > e.g.
· KPI Brochure = Key Performance Indicators for Environmental, Social & Governance Issues – Version 1.2 (.pdf, April 2009, 70 pp.) = KPIs for ESG - A Guideline for the Integration of ESG into Financial Analysis and Corporate Valuation
o The KPIs are available as an XBRL taxonomy within the WICI (World Intellectual Capital Initiative) framework.
o >>
§ EFFAS/DVFA launch Exposure Draft KPIs for ESG 3.0 (12 May 2010)
· See also related article at SocialFunds: Draft of Key Performance Indicators for Corporate Reporting Is Published in Europe (18 May 2010)
· CFO.com »An Economist Group business« > e.g.
o Magazines > CFO Magazine >>
§ December 2007 >
· Sustainability Reporting: Earth in the Balance Sheet (1 December 2007; By Scott Leibs)
· The World Intellectual Capital Initiative (WICI) was formed in late 2007 as a private/public sector collaboration. The World Intellectual Capital Initiative is a private/public sector collaboration aimed at improving capital allocation through better corporate reporting information. > e.g.
· NIVRA Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut van Registeraccountants (The Netherlands)
o Het NIVRA >
§ Over het NIVRA >
· Activiteiten >
o Kernprojecten 2008-2009 >
§ Vaktechnisch:
· Assurance en verantwoording van digitale informatie
o Thema's >
§ ICT
· BSR Business for Social Responsibility (USA) > e.g.
o Consulting >
§ Industry >
· Information & Communications Technology
o Research >
§ Research & Innovation:
· Reports >> e.g.
o Software Accelerates Sustainable Development (.pdf, August 2008, 35 pp.)
§ See also related news at CSRwire: Can Software Save the World? (3 September 2008) - BSR and Software Industry Define Sustainability Solutions
o CSR in China's Information and Communication Technology Sector (.pdf, July 2007, 92 pp.; Also Chinese verison of the report)
§ Publications:
· Human Rights in a Wired World
· Leading Perspectives >
o Winter 2007: The Intersection of CSR and Technology (.pdf, 24 pp.; Relating to ICT)
o Conference & Events (??) > e.g.
§ 2007 (23-26 October; San Francisco, CA)
· Designing a Sustainable Future > Breakout Sessions > e.g.
o Governance & Accountability >
§ Using New Media for Sustainability Reporting
· Ethical Corporation »Magazine, Conferences, Reports« >
o Resources >
· »a searchable database of companies and individuals working in corporate responsibility.«
· »The directory is free for visitors to the Ethical Corporation website.«
· Search by Company Types (many subcategories) > e.g.
o Communications >
§ Website Design / Services
o Reporting and Assurance Services >
§ Online Reporting
§ Website Design / Services
o Software, Internet and Technology Services
o directory (CSR Professional Services Directory) > e.g.
§ Specialist Category >
· CSR Information Technology, Website (Design), Website (Writing)
· EEA European Environment Agency >
o About EEA > Networks > EnviroWindows > Information access tools >
§ Sustainable Development Online (SD-online) > e.g.
· Tools >
o Dissemination of information
o Software
· Caiteur Group = climatechangeinstitute.com (Headquartered in Toronto, Canada) »is the research leader in information technology solutions for Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSR) and GHG Emissions. Caiteur Group provides research and advisory services on CSR and GHG Emissions markets in the areas of sustainability performance management (SPM), CSR software solutions, GHG Emissions software solutions, data management, reporting, governance and risk management, and regulatory compliance readiness.«
· Information Systems for Environmental Sustainability (Blog by Nigel Melville, assistant professor of business information technology at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan)
· Natural Logic (Berkeley, CA, USA) >
o Resources >
§ Tools >
o Business Metabolics™ is a web-based KPI (key performance indicator) system that streamlines the collection, analysis and reporting of your organizations’ environmental, social and economic performance data.
· AtKisson Inc. > e.g.
o Sustainability Services > e.g.
§ Reporting
· Maricor Technologies (Portland, USA) >>
o Press release (13 September 2005):
§ Maricor Technologies Releases Facility Sustainability Reporting Software
· Categoric Software »is a world leader in Supply Chain Event Management and Business Activity Monitoring solutions.« >
o Products >
§ Accord - Governance manager (= Accord for GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance))
· Dakota Software (Cleveland, OH, Rochester, NY)
· Microsoft Dynamics >> e.g.
o Environmental Sustainability Dashboard
· ISA Integrated Sustainability Analysis (Sydney, Australia) >
o Research >
§ Triple Bottom Line Reporting > e.g.
· In February 2006, the ISA Group has completed work on a 2-year Sustainability Reporting Pilot Program for organisations > e.g.
o TBL accounting software (BottomLine3) underpinned by the ISA methodology, developed in consultation with end-users and commercially available and supported through Dipolar Pty Ltd
§ Using this software you can create a comprehensive sustainability report across the Triple Bottom Line simply by inputing your orgainsation's expenditure and revenue accounts.
§ The BottomLine3 software takes your organisation’s financial accounts, together with on-site impact data, as input. The outputs are powerful diagrams and tables that will form the backbone of a comprehensive sustainability report.
§ Some keywords:
· boundary-free, the full supply chain, input-output analysis (IOA), indirect impacts, ecological footprint
· CapISA Sustainability Performance Management (CapISA SPM; till 2009 ??) is a software package developed by Capiotech and the ISA team at University of Sydney. Using this software you can create a comprehensive sustainability report simply by inputting your organisation's expenditure and revenue accounts.
· Sustainable Business Support Link (= Sustainable Business Tracker Tool)
o »this online software tool is designed to allow small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to conduct a sustainability self-assessment of their operations. In addition to generating ‘triple bottom line’ reports for business, the tool will provide practical information and resources to encourage SMEs to pursue immediate and realistic strategies to move towards sustainability.«
o See also National Centre for Sustainability at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia)
· Systar (Australia) »provides innovative, web based software solutions for safety and environment management and sustainability reporting.«
· CSR-Evaluator Ltd (London, UK) »is an independent company that developed The Evaluator to help organisations accurately and cost effectively assess the likely impacts of social, environmental and economic (the triple bottom line) issues on their business processes.«
o The Evaluator web based business diagnostic framework that helps companies identify, manage, monitor and improve Corporate Responsibility Activities.
· Eco Systems »Software voor Milieu, Veiligheid & Gezondheid en Kwaliteitszorg« (The Netherlands) >> e.g.
o MVO Onder Glas (or here)
§ Dutch software to prepare CSR report for growers of vegetables and flowers; International version to come; Versions for other sectors will follow
· Verteego (France)
o Verteego Report is a collaborative Social Responsibility assessment and communication tool for your organization that generates a sustainability report you can share with your stakeholders to do more and better business.
o Environmental Expert connects over 1,000,000 environmental industry professionals from around the globe to 20,000 companies that provide the products, services and information they need to do their job successfully.
o >
§ Marketplace >
· Environmental Mgmt >
o Environmental Management >
§ Corporate Social Responsibility :
· Software (15 results by May 2009)
§ :
· Software (386 results by May 2009)
· London Stock Exchange (LSE) >
o Products & Services >
§ IR Solutions >
· CRE Corporate Responsibility Exchange (??)
o ICSA Software and the London Stock Exchange are pleased to announce the transfer of the Corporate Responsibility Exchange (CRE) to ICSA Software, the software company of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA).
o The CRE, an online tool for the reporting of non-financial corporate information, will be integrated with ICSA Software's existing range of software applications, which are designed to meet the needs of company secretaries, compliance specialists and governance professionals throughout the world.
· BusinessGreen (London) > e.g.
o News >>
§ Carbonetworks launches new CRC-compliant software suite (8 July 2009)
§ Logica joins carbon software battleground (13 May 2009)
o In depth >>
§ Carbon reporting tools head towards the corporate mainstream (1 June 2007)
o Blog >> e.g.
§ Lawson Software tackles CSR reporting (8 March 2007)
· edie >> e.g.
o Making carbon accounting a reality (August 2009)
§ Ram Ramachander, chief operating officer and Hugo Seymour, carbon consultant from Greenstone Carbon Management explain why traditional methods of carbon accounting are no longer fit for purpose.
· Trucost (Head Office: London, UK) > e.g.
o About Us >
§ Partnerships >
· Software
o News and Events >
§ Blog >
· Carbonated business applications – why are they so flat? (10 May 2010)
o Sarah Wainwright: Trucost invites Jyoti Banerjee, director of KiteBlue and industry expert, to share his views on how software applications are responding to "green" challenges
§ News >
· 2010 >
o UNIT4 launches Sustain4 – the fastest and most reliable Environmental Performance Management solution for business (17 June 2010)
· Verdantix is an independent analyst firm. We offer unique strategic and commercial analysis of climate change, sustainability and energy issues. >
o Research > e.g.
§ Innovation & Cleantech (mainly to purchase) > e.g.
· Buyer's Guide To Sustainable Business Software (5 July 2010)
o See also articles at
§ GreenBiz: Verdantix Predicts a 'New Era' of Sustainability Software (9 July 2010)
§ Environmental Leader: Sustainability Platforms to be Replaced by Integrated Systems (9 July 2010)
· Five Pitfalls Of Sustainable Business Software (11 May 2010)
· Green Quadrant: Carbon Management Software (Global) (1 October 2009)
· Business Case For Carbon Management Software (4 August 2009)
· Carbon Management Software Market Explodes (5 June 2009)
· Total Portfolio: IT Sustainability Solutions (26 March 2009)
· Smart Vendors: Carbon Management Software (24 September 2008)
· GTM Greentech Media (Headquarters: Cambridge, MA) > e.g.
o >>
§ SAP: All-in-One Carbon, Energy, Sustainability Software (10 December 2009; By Jeff St. John)
· SAP promises new software to integrate carbon counting, energy efficiency, environmental monitoring and social responsibility reporting.
· See also
o Related article at GreenBiz: SAP Adds Sustainability Reporting to BusinessObjects Software Suite (14 December 2009)
o Relate press release at CSRwire: New SAP® Solution Helps Companies Deliver on Their Sustainability Promises (10 December 2009)
§ Giants vs. Startups: SAP Stakes Carbon Accounting Claim (19 November 2009; By Jeff St. John)
· SAP says its huge existing customer base will give its carbon accounting software huge advantages over startups. But with the carbon-counting game in its infancy, there’s still room for startups to excel.
o >>
§ Enterprise Carbon Accounting (2 June 2009; Report authors: Paul Baier, Tim Greiner)
· The report, titled Enterprise Carbon Accounting: An Analysis of Organizational-Level Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting and a Review of Emerging GHG Software Products, was created as a guide for organizations that are considering calculating or currently tracking and reporting GHG emissions. The report provides detailed information and analysis on the state of the market and 51 vendors in total.
· EL Environmental Leader »Energy & Environmental News for Business« (Fort Collins, Colorado, USA) > e.g.
o All Topics:
§ Hi-Tech
o >>
§ Oracle Software Simplifies Environmental Reporting (23 April 2010)
§ Software Tools Ease Environmental Data Tracking (19 April 2010)
§ Start Tracking GHG Emissions in 60 Days (10 March 2010) - With some companies crunched for time in trying to comply with the EPA’s new greenhouse gas reporting initiative, which took effect Jan. 1, a software maker has come up with a platfrom that can help a company begin tracking its emissions within 60 days.
§ Five Times as Many Firms to Use Enterprise Carbon Accounting by 2011 (20 January 2010; Relating to the report entitled "2010 Enterprise Carbon Accounting: An Analysis of Corporate-Level Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Reporting and a Review of GHG Software Products" from Groom Energy)
· See also related article at
o Fast Company: Carbon Accounting Software Market Experiencing Huge Period of Growth (1 March 2010; By Tracey de Morsella)
o ClimateBiz: Investment in Carbon Accounting Software Hit $46 Million in 2009 (21 January 2010)
§ Carbon Management Software and Services to Grow 40% Annually Through 2017 (19 January 2010)
· The carbon management software and services market exceeded $380 million in 2009 and is expected to achieve a heady 40 percent compounded annual growth rate through 2017, according to Pike Research.
· The software market for carbon management was estimated at $132 million in 2009, according to the Carbon Management Software and Services report.
§ Tesco Adopts Carbon Accounting Software (30 September 2009)
§ Carbon Disclosure Demands on the Rise: Is Your Organization Ready? (26 August 2009; By George Ahn, CEO, TRIRIGA)
§ Software Solutions Ease Sustainability Management and Reporting (17 July 2009)
§ Web Tool Analyzes Sustainability Strategies (13 May 2009; Relating to Web-based TEAL (Total Emissions Analytics) software, from Noblis Inc.)
§ Companies Disclosing GHG Emissions On Rise (16 January 2009)
· The number of companies disclosing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) will triple in the next two years, and the number of firms using commercial GHG software will quadruple in the same time period, according to a study by Groom Energy Solutions and Pure Strategies Consulting.
§ ESS Releases New Sustainability Software (22 February 2008) >>
· ESS Environmental Support Solutions (Corporate HQ: Tempe, AZ)
o Note: ESS was acquired by IHS Inc. in September 2009
· ClimateBiz > e.g.
o Tags: Carbon Management Software > e.g.
§ A Buyer’s Guide to GHG Accounting Tools (20 May 2010; By Betsy Fargo, BSR)
· CSRwire >> e.g.
o PureReport: first sustainable development reporting SaaS solution completing the GRI certified Software and Tools program (11 July 2010; Relating to the S2D2 (Stratégies et Solutions de Développement Durable))
o Enablon Recognized as “Emerging Leader” in Groom Energy Enterprise Carbon Accounting Report (19 January 2010)
o Enablon Recognized as Leader in Carbon Management Software by Independent Research Firm (16 October 2009; Relating to report "Verdantix Green Quadrant® Carbon Management Software", in which the research firm analyzed the global Carbon Management software market and recognized Enablon as a leader out of 22 companies.)
o Intertek Sustainability Solutions and CRedit360 Join Forces to Provide High-Efficiency Sustainability and Carbon Management (6 October 2009)
o EH&S Software Leader ESS Launches Global Solutions Initiative to Leverage EH&S Management to Lower Costs, Gain Competitive Advantages (22 May 2008)
· Corporate Responsibility Magazine = CR Magazine (New name of CRO Magazine; SharedXpertise, LLC; Edison, NJ) > e.g.
o Topics:
§ Compliance & Governance > e.g.
· Suite Talk - Vendor execs offer views on GRC, CSR, sustainability applications (20 August 2008) > also
o Chart: Top Software Providers in GRC, CSR & Sustainability
o CSR Management Needs Drive Application Evolution
o >>
§ The Nine (April 2010)
· Using the established customer satisfaction methodology from CR Magazine’s last issue and adapted from CR Magazine’s sister publications, we identified the top players in the Environment and Energy Technology space, using data and feedback from customers.
· TechNewsWorld >
o Technology > Green Tech >>
§ Sustainability Software, Part 1: It's Easy Being Green (1 December 2009; By Ned Madden)
· IThound.com (Incisive Media) >>
· Infor »Infor is the world's third largest business software company.« >> e.g.
o The Business of “Going Green”
· Lawson >
o Services > Corporate Social Responsibility
· GeSI Global e-Sustainability Initiative
o »An initiative of ICT service providers and suppliers, with the support of the UNEP and International Telecommunication Union (ITU).«
· Forum for the Future (UK) > e.g.
o Browse by subject > Science & technology > e.g.
§ Resources > e.g.
· Digital Europe: social responsibility in the information society (December 2004; .pdf has 57 pp.)
· The future impacts of ICT on environmental sustainability (October 2004)
· Making the net work: sustainable development in a digital society (March 2004)
· Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (USA) >
o News & Events > Blogs & Newsletter > E-Newsletter > March 2007 >
§ U.S. companies lead Europe in CSR data integration
· When it comes to using technology to manage their CSR initiatives, U.S. firms are ahead of their European counterparts.
· GRI Global Reporting Initiative > e.g.
o Current Priorities >
§ UNGC & GRI (= Mainstreaming Corporate Citizenship: The UNGC-GRI Value Platform) >
· Software solutions
o Information management and digital solutions to help implement the UNGC and GRI frameworks together.
· The GRI Tech Partnership is a group of software providers that are working with the GRI to closely align their software and toolsets with the GRI Framework.
· By working with the GRI to closely understand the Reporting Framework and the potential needs of a technology-based reporting community, these Tech Partners are adopting a long-term leadership position where they can develop future software with an enhanced understanding of the GRI and the software needs of the reporting community.
· > e.g.
o Founding (2006)Tech Partners:
§ Enablon
§ ESP
§ Hyperion
§ Plan A
§ SAP
· See also related article at Information Week: A Dashboard For Well-Meaning Companies (13 November 2007; By John Fole