CSR - Briefs

 

From a selection round in late May when more than 4,000 schools across the country submitted their works, 80 teams – 20 each from four regions – reached the first round earlier this month. Contests have now progressed in Bangkok/Central and the three other regions where 12 teams from each have won, and progressed, after the selection round ended on July 27-29, with three winners selected in the final selection workshop held in the South, at a Surat Thani hotel.

All 12 teams are now entering the final-round competition, from Monday to September 10, in which they will demonstrate how their innovations work, through models or mock-ups and pictorial display and multimedia presentation. An online vote via Facebook page and a website, open during the same period, will account for 30 per cent of scores, while 70 per cent will be given by a committee comprising Samsung officials, instructors in the workshop and guest judges with expertise in relevant areas. The final will be held on September 17 when the winner of the first prize will be announced and given Bt50,000 and a trip to South Korea, while Bt25,000 will go to their school. A demonstration centre featuring technology, titled “IT Learning Space”, will be built by Samsung for the winners’ school, to be completed by November 19.

Samsung’s manager for public relations and corporate social responsibility, Prinda Nilthachan, said the “Samsung Hope for Children – Samsung Young Creator” project will continue for at least another four years, possibly in a similar or different manner, depending on the outcome of this year’s event.

 

 

 

 

 

Sony hands out closed-circuit TVs

All homes and communities want to have closed-circuit TV nearby, being the eyes to protect them from from thiefs and others.

 

Panasonic Siew Sales (Thailand) sees the need of poor communities for this product. In its first annual CSR campaign, this year, CCTV worth over Bt3 million is prepared for a lucky community in Bangkok and peripheral provinces.

 

Ranee Sitthikaew, senior manager, said that from now until end-September, communities are welcomed to download applications at www.cctvthai.com and write down reasons why they need the cameras. "They could enlist any problems, from burglary, drugs to violence. We hope that this project would be a way to ease social problems," she said.