HTC Founders & Partners

IEEE’s core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.

IEEE is the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology. Through its global membership, IEEE is a leading authority on areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, energy and consumer electronics.

Supporting United Nations (UN) causes to meet the global challenges of an interdependent age.

The UN Foundation builds and implements public-private partnerships to address the world’s most pressing problems, and broadens support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach. The UN Foundation is a public charity.

The IEEE Foundation is the philanthropic arm of IEEE.

With contributions from generous sponsors around the world, the IEEE Foundation seeks to increase the understanding of how technologies are created and how they impact society, individuals and the environment. Interdisciplinary in its activities and transnational in scope, the IEEE Foundation has the potential to improve people’s lives everywhere.

About the UN Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation Partnership

The UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation partnership strives to be the leading public-private alliance using strategic technology programmes to strengthen the UN's humanitarian efforts worldwide. Created in October 2005, with a £10 million commitment from The Vodafone Group Foundation matched by £5 million from the UN Foundation, the Partnership has three core commitments:

1. to develop rapid response telecoms teams to aid disaster relief;
2. to develop health data systems that improve access to health data thereby helping to combat disease;
3. to promote research and innovative initiatives using technology as an agent and tool for international development.

Further information can be found at www.unfoundation.org/vodafone.