Arpan Banerjee

The demands of the world economy are changing. The 21st Century demands a new brand of cooperation on education. Several countries have put education at the top of their national agendas. An emerging trend is observed in the collaboration between various nations in the field of education to meet global challenges.

Global product companies or Independent Service Vendors (ISVs) are always under performance pressure as would any of us in our respective jobs. They strive for market expansion, increased product features and new product ideas and face the regular constraints of decreasing profitability, increased competition, dearth of resource and skills and rising costs with simultaneous pressure to upgrade and widen product offerings while using fewer resources.

The basic philosophy that the corporate world follows is that every company, like every individual, has a duty to society. Just as individuals harm the environment, so does every company in its own way. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) thus focuses on reducing the negative effects to eradicate the harmful effects caused by a firm’s processes and product-usage and takes steps towards increasing its positive contributions.