Daring innovators: Accelerating impact in Argentina
For four weeks in September, 16 talented IBMers from ten different nationalities volunteered in Santa Fe, Argentina, to solve the community’s most important needs through pro-bono consultancy projects as part of the IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) Program.
The initiative is part of IBM’s global Corporate Social Responsibility program that sends IBM staff to different areas around the world to volunteer for one-month periods and provide pro-bono consulting expertise to local stakeholders comprised of public sector institutions, including universities, governments and non-governmental organizations.
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT) implements and facilitates the CSC program, setting up the IBMers with meaningful and impactful opportunities to be daring social innovators in local communities — applying their skills and knowledge in support of local organizations facing complex challenges.
During these four weeks in Argentina, the 16 IBMers helped the Association of Entrepreneurs of Santa Fe (ADE), the Food Bank of Santa Fe (BASFE), The Municipality of Santa Fe (Santa Fe Ciudad), and the National Technological University campus Santa Fe (UTN Santa Fe) to design projects and provide recommendations and best practices to solve social challenges.
The IBMers were divided into four sub-teams over the course of the deployment’s implementation period in order to work on separate projects and provide their recommendations. The goal of this deployment was to transform Santa Fe into a logistical hub for the region. Efforts to achieve this goal included work on additional complementary infrastructure projects designed to strengthen the local economy and local community. This included projects focused on increasing the impact and efficiency of internal operations via up-to-date information, improving access to data and enhancing the ability to use evidence-based decision making, advancing technical skills at the university that matter most for the local economy, and fostering entrepreneurship.
Once the implementation phase of the deployment came to an end, IBMers had the opportunity to gather with their host organizations, stakeholders and community partners to present their findings, reflect on their experience, and share their final recommendations.
Check out social media posts and media coverage surrounding the IBM CSC 6 Argentina deployment and tweets from participating IBMers from each stage of their trip below!
Deployment
Community Day
Final Presentations
Closing Ceremony
Visit to IBM Argentina
Thank you IBM CSC 6 team for your impactful work in Argentina!
DOT is one of IBM’s implementation partners for the CSC and SCC programs. The DOT-IBM partnership started 10 years ago and, to date, DOT has implemented 95 IBM deployments in 22 countries.
