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welfare activities and care the society voluntarily, so as to take initiative to feed
back the society on an on-going basis, extend the scope of services and fulfill the
corporate social responsibility.
ASUS Foundation, through the connection and cooperation with
governments and non-profit-making organizations everywhere, encourages and
invites the public to value and concern the society-related issues in various manners
and via various activities. Meanwhile, it also hopes to accumulate the collective
energy through more concrete action force, and extends to more diversified
platforms, feed more benefits back to society via connection with different
organizations, upgrade the global information education and promote the exchange
and development in the world, in order to become a global digital education portal
dedicated to providing software and hardware integration service and achieve
ASUS’s vision for the global citizen.
Social and public welfare results:
(1) Refurbished computer digital training plan
Since 2008, the company has promoted the “Refurbished Computer
Hope Engineering” Project for 8 years. Under the Project, wasted computers
may be re-assembled and installed with software after being recycled. Under
the Project, wasted computers may be recycled and the concept about
environmental protection and love of the earth may be promoted therefor, and
digital learning may be promoted actively to shorten the digital gap.
A total of 19,456 sets of information equipment, such as wasted
computers, were recycled in 2015, i.e. an increase in the total recycled quantity
by 77% from 14,956 sets in 2014. A total of 1,262 sets of refurbished
computers were donated to 89 domestic non-profit-making organizations and
14 overseas non-profit-making organizations in 2015. The groups served by
the donated non-profit-making organizations are primarily volunteer workers,
cram schools for disadvantaged child students, seniors, physically and mentally
handicapped, and new inhabitants. Meanwhile, the recipients who received
the refurbished computers may also apply the software programs and services
provided by ASUS Foundation, e.g. set-up of social community (set-up of
Facebook fan page, how to post and share articles), control over files (Google
cloud hardware, and production of cloud questionnaire), paperwork
(Word/Excel/PPT), promotional portal (introduction to edition of images), so
as to upgrade its administrative capability and extend its global view and create
competitiveness in the future. Such software and teaching materials are
expected to benefit a total of 16,050 persons directly and indirectly. When the
recipient’s ability is upgraded, the partners who receive its service may also be
benefited therefor. For example, few teachers are willing to serve in the cram
schools in remote areas because of lack of learning resources and the students