Joy Keys finds out what is the World Community Grid

World Community Grid brings together people from across the globe who donate their idle computer time to create the largest volunteer computing grid benefiting humanity.

Robin Willner is IBM's vice president of global community initiatives. As such, she designs and implements programs that use technology in novel ways to address long-standing social issues in the communities where IBMers live and work.

Ms. Willner oversees a global portfolio of corporate citizenship initiatives. These include a program with the International Finance Corporation to provide a toolkit of resources to small businesses. The portfolio she oversees also includes IBM's Corporate Service Corps, a kind of Peace Corps staffed by IBM volunteers.

She manages IBM sponsorship of the World Community Grid, which IBM established and supports. In addition, Robin is in charge of IBM’s humanitarian response to disasters, including 9/11 in New York City, the 2004 tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina cleanup in the U.S. Gulf Coast, and earthquakes, typhoons and pandemics worldwide.

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