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b. Sponsor ADOC private office producing documentary and publishing books
to promote and share experience in shortening digital divide nationally and
internationally.
(2) Domestic
a. Work with ETMALL arranging “Infinite love, online tribe” activity to
donate 135 computers to 17 tribe elementary schools in order to help
modernize and better computer teaching equipment of schools in remote
area.
b. Work with National Tsing Hua University to arrange “2009 Indigene ASUS
Science Teaching Award – Online Science Exhibition” in order to combine
and promote indigene culture with science education.
c. Work with Microsoft to promote digital phoenix plan with 55 AUSU
notebooks donated by ASUS Foundation, teaching materials provided by
Microsoft, and teachers assigned by R.O.C. eCommerce Development
Association. The digital phoenix plan was to help female inmates in the three
jailhouse of Taoyuan, Taichung, and Kaohsiung learns computer skills so
they could earn a living after returning to the society. The class was
scheduled in February 2010.
d. The company had enforced the “Recycling Green Marketing Ongoing
Development Plan” in July 2008 ~ December 2009 to provide consumers in
Taiwan with B2C and state-run and private groups with B2B computer
recycling service. The recycled computers were repaired and tested before
donating them to elementary school and junior high school students in
remote area in order to help upgrade information availability in remote areas
and shorten digital divide. ASUSTeK promoted the “Computer Recycling
Project of Hope” to combine environmental protection and social charity;
also, to substantiate enterprises’ social responsibility. Please refer to the
website at (http://recycling.asus.com) for the “Computer Recycling Project
of Hope” in details.
3. Environmental conservation:
(1) Sponsor Public TV with NT$500,000 to film a documentary “Eight Thousand
Miles Away From Home” on black-faced spoonbill for promoting green
environment education.
(2) Work with Public TV to hold national environmental protection documentary
tournament “Environmental Protection 99 for Beautiful Earth” to upgrade
environmental awakening. There were close to one thousand contestants with
500 works submitted for competition in February and award ceremony in April.
The awarded works were filmed in a DVD for free circulation to environmental
protection and education institutes.
(3) Hold environmental protection and recycling, prize contests, environmental
protection hand-made soap, and mercy donation… activities on 422 “Global
Earth Day” every year.
(4) Work with Forestry Bureau on Arbor Day to hold plantation, green environment
activities.
(5) Summon employees to join the “Clean Coastline and Beautiful Home” voluntary
activity and work with the community to clean up the neighborhood and to care
of the earth.
4. Cooperation between industry and academia
(1)Offer scholarship and financial aid to Tsing Hua University and Zhejiang
University to help incubate science and technology talents for the nation.