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IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA.
IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
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IBM and Education reform
Lobbying for computer science on curricula
IBM has been part of the push by technology giants, among others, to get coding and computer science on curricula in countries around the world.
When the UK government agreed to introduce a new computing curriculum from September 2014, IBM alongside Microsoft, Google and others, came together with the government with a programme to train teachers to teach the new curriculum.[1]
PR & Lobbying
Lobbying firms
In 2014, in the US, IBM spent $4,950,000 lobbying Washington.[2] It employed the following lobbying agencies (as of 2014):
- In 2008, IBM was listed as a having been a client of The Gorlin Group[4]
Lobbying groups
- IBM has ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). (see the Center for Media and Democracys 'ALEC Exposed' project for more on the US lobbying group, ALEC.[5]
EU lobbying
IBM has an interest in a wide range of EU policy issues, including: Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation programme; European Regional Development Fund regulation; the European Cloud Computing Strategy, Communication COM(2012) 529 final; data protection regulations; TTIP, the EU-US trade negotiations.[6]
IBM is also a member of the following European Commission 'expert groups' (advisory groups):
- The Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (DG Connect); brings together 'industrial groups, academia, governments, and private individuals to support policies for open innovation at the European Commission'[7]
- Cloud Computing Strategy Working Groups (DG Connect)[8]
- NIS Platform (Network and Information Security)[9]
- JRC Working Groups on Innovation and the role of patents]] (Joint Research Centre - the European Commission's 'in-house science service')[10]
- ITS Platform (Intelligent Transport Systems)
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EU lobbying
UK political affiliations
- HM Treasury Controlled Foreign Companies (CFCs) working group (2010-2011) - representative Kathy Bishop [12]
People
- Virginia Rometty ('Ginni'): current Chairman, President and CEO of IBM
Board
- Alain J.P. Belda
- William R. Brody
- Kenneth I. Chenault
- Michael L. Eskew
- David N. Farr
- Shirley Ann Jackson
- Andrew N. Liveris
- W. James McNerney, Jr.
- James W. Owens
- Virginia M. Rometty
- Joan E. Spero
- Sidney Taurel
Lobbyists
- Liam Benham, Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Europe[13]
- Nicholas Hodac, Brussels lobbyist
- Sarah Greenwood, Brussels lobbyist
- Merel Wackwitz, Brussels lobbyist
- Michael King: Vice President and General Manager, Global Education Industry at IBM; 'represents IBM at all levels of government and education policy issues around the globe'[14]
Contacts
- Website:
- Address:
- HQ: New Orchard Road, 1; Armonk; New York; 10504
- Brussels: Avenue de Cortenbergh, 116; Bruxelles 1000
References
- ↑ Microsoft, Google and IBM to help train computing teachers, UK government press release, 3 June 2014
- ↑ IBM profile, Open Secrets, accessed November 2015
- ↑ IBM profile, Open Secrets, accessed November 2015
- ↑ The Gorlin Group Clients Accessed 20th March 2008
- ↑ ALEC Exposed, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy, accessed November 2015
- ↑ IBM Corp, EU transparency register, accessed November 2015
- ↑ OISPG, EC website, accessed Nov 2015
- ↑ Cloud Computing Strategy Working Groups, accessed Nov 2015
- ↑ NIS Platform, European Union Agency for Network and Information Security website], accessed November 2015
- ↑ Joint Research Centre, accessed Nov 2015
- ↑ AIOTI, accessed Nov 2015
- ↑ Controlled Foreign Companies (CFCs) working groups and committees: Working group on CFC interim improvements (established July 2010), acc 5 October 2011
- ↑ IBM Corp, EU transparency register, accessed November 2015
- ↑ Michael King, LinkedIn profile, accessed Nov 2015
