Samsung Electronics has officially announced that the company has ranked seventh out of 200 companies in the WBA’s (World Benchmarking Alliance) 2023 Digital Inclusion Benchmark.
For your information, the WBA examines companies with a focus on seven key categories, including human rights, the environment, and digital inclusion. It represents an alliance forged among more than 200 global, regional and local organizations to shape the private sector’s contributions to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Moreover, Samsung was partially awarded for its ongoing efforts to promote access. The company follows leading practices to support accessibility by including accessibility features in its products.
Samsung’s latest TVs also include an avatar-based sign language guide that provides sign language-based descriptions of menus for greater accessibility. The company also discloses data on how the economic value it generates is distributed among stakeholders and calculates its sustainable value creation.
The Korean firm also supports various programs that are advancing digital skills at all levels and increasing school connectivity. The company shows best practices by administering its programs through its local offices, often in partnership with local governments and non-governmental organizations.
It also reports participation metrics for its programs. Samsung’s flagship program, “Samsung Innovation Campus” has provided technical training programs for teenagers and unemployed youth since 2013.
On the other side, “Samsung SW Academy for Youth” program, is an annual Korea-based program that provides theoretical and practical training to help youth develop their capabilities and competitiveness as professional software developers from 2018, providing support in the form of job opportunities in the technology sectors of the future.
Samsung continues its commitment to open innovation by participating in several standards organizations and taking on open-source projects.
The company contributes to the tech innovation ecosystem in Korea through its Samsung Next and C-Lab Outside programs, which help foster the startup ecosystem through accelerators and incubators. It also has an AI Ethics Council and is committed to ethical AI principles.
Samsung is committed to promoting digital responsibility as a company that develops products and technologies that improve users’ lives. Going forward, the company will continue to explore ways to make it easier for people to access and use a wide range of digital technologies that are convenient and meaningful.
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