Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) focuses its corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts on education, health, and the environment. In India, TCS' CSR programs include an adult literacy program, academic programs to support students and faculty, a job training program for disadvantaged youth, and programs to provide farmers with agricultural information and support sustainable practices. In fiscal year 2015, TCS spent over Rs 51 crores on CSR programs that benefited over 57 lakh people through initiatives like adult literacy training, school programs, healthcare training, and environmental sustainability projects.
CSR in India is in a very nascent stage. It is still one of the least understood initiatives in the Indian development sector. It is followed by a handful of public companies as dictated by the very basis of their existence, and by a few private companies, with international shareholding as this is the practice followed by them in their respective foreign country. Thus the situation is far from perfect as the emphasis is not on social good but rather on a policy that needs to be implemented. But the situation is changing, CSR is coming out of the purview of ‘doing social good’ and is fast becoming a ‘business necessity’. The ‘business case’ for CSR is gaining ground and corporate houses are realizing that ‘what is good for workers - their community, health, and environment is also good for the businesses.
CSR in India is in a very nascent stage. It is still one of the least understood initiatives in the Indian development sector. It is followed by a handful of public companies as dictated by the very basis of their existence, and by a few private companies, with international shareholding as this is the practice followed by them in their respective foreign country. Thus the situation is far from perfect as the emphasis is not on social good but rather on a policy that needs to be implemented. But the situation is changing, CSR is coming out of the purview of ‘doing social good’ and is fast becoming a ‘business necessity’. The ‘business case’ for CSR is gaining ground and corporate houses are realizing that ‘what is good for workers - their community, health, and environment is also good for the businesses.
A Report On Corporate Social Responsibility : The Tata GroupNavitha Pereira
A report highlighting the various corporate social responsibility initiatives taken by the Tata Group and their subsidiaries. Tata sustainability policy has also been mentioned.
TATA POWER: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
The pillars of the case are problems ans challenges faced by TATA Power regarding CSR activities, solutions to it, implementation factors of TATA Power i.e. cost, resources, technology, people and process involved , and finally the learnings from the case.
A Report On Corporate Social Responsibility : The Tata GroupNavitha Pereira
A report highlighting the various corporate social responsibility initiatives taken by the Tata Group and their subsidiaries. Tata sustainability policy has also been mentioned.
TATA POWER: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
The pillars of the case are problems ans challenges faced by TATA Power regarding CSR activities, solutions to it, implementation factors of TATA Power i.e. cost, resources, technology, people and process involved , and finally the learnings from the case.
TATA Corporate Social Responsibility - A Century of TrustOdisha Development
At the Tata Group our purpose is to improve the quality of life of the communities we serve. We do this through leadership in sectors of national economic significance, to which the group brings a unique set of capabilities. This requires us to grow aggressively in focused area of business.
The Andhra Pradesh Academy of Rural Development (APARD) has been working relentlessly for over 54 years in building capacities for sustainable development of the rural poor. APARD is an apex training institute in AP for capacity building of rural development officers and panchayat raj officials. We also consistently focus on research that helps us offer high quality consulting services in rural development.
Highlighting the government’s focus on Skill Development to achieve economic & social development through the country’s huge active population (between 15-45 years), the presentation details the changing scenario of the skill development sector in India and the state of Gujarat.
For financial year (2021-2022) Companies have spent over 6000 crores on education and special education, with an additional 1000 crores being allocated to vocational skill development. Focus areas include:
- Improving School Infrastructure
- Teacher Training
- Technology Interventions
- Skill Development
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. TATA Consultancy Services
Corporate Social Responsibility
CEO : Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Founded : 1968
Industry Vertical : IT, ITeS
Headquartered : Mumbai, India
Equity Listed in : NSE:TCS, BSE: 532540
3. Introduction
• The guiding principle of TCS’ CSR programs is “Impact through
Empowerment”.
• Core areas are : Education, Health and Environment.
• This is same across all geographies.
4. TCS’ CSR in India: Education
• Adult Literacy Program
TCS designed CBFL software .
Available in 9 Indian and 3 foreign languages
Since inception, programme has reached 2,31,178 beneficiaries.
• Academic Interface Program
Faculty Development Programmes.
Student workshops
Project Support and Internships
Student Awards
5. TCS’ CSR in India: Education….
Sponsorships of Academic Technical Events in closed partner
institutes.
• TCS’ BPO Employability Program: In 2010, TCS initiated programme
for to train economically and socially disadvantaged candidates for
BPS jobs then absorb some of them.
• This Employability Training Programme comprises 80-100 hours
interactive content.
• 56,631 students trained with a cumulative reach of 16,676 SC/ST
youth in over 160 geographic locations. Over 3,626 of these trained
youth have found employment at TCS BPS.
6. TCS’ CSR in India: Education….
• InsighT
• The program is designed to meet
the ISE, CBSE and state board
syllabus in India.
• InsighT seeks to promote team
building, leadership,
communication and
presentation skills, along with
technical skills.
• In 2014-15, InsighT was run in 36
schools reaching 2040 students.
7. TCS’ CSR in India: Environment
• mKRISHI
• Enable farmers to receive
important information about
pesticides, fertilizers and soil and
water conservation.
• Provide critical micro-climate,
weather information in order to
plan farming operations.
• Facilitate better production and
cultivation practices.
8. TCS’ CSR in India: Health
• Empower
• Through Empower, TCS aims at building capabilities of its support
staff at various TCS offices and bridge the gap between service staff
and TCS associates.
• Modules of the training include acquiring basic communication
through English and other relevant soft skills.
• In FY15, 826 beneficiaries received training under the Empower
programme across 8 locations.