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  Dr. Boris Libois    Premium Member

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  Building a high-level experts network to assess corporate social responsibility projects

  Hello everyone,
  
  My name is Boris Libois, from Brussels, the small capital city (1,5 million inhabitants) of a no man's land (Belgium, 10 millions inhabitants), somewhere in Europe, stuck between Germany, France, United Kingdom and The Netherlands. Living in a small but complex country helps being open to understand our global world. I always have been interested by social and political use and impact of media systems (press, broadcasting and telecommunications) and information and communication technologies. That is why I spent about 7 years in scientific work (I wrote two books in French on freedom of information and philosophical challenges of public communication). I also spent the same time in public affairs, aspecially in governement administration and independant agencies in charge of open governance and legal regulation of electronic media networks and contents.
  
  At now I'm starting a new job as a consultant focused on social accountability and sustainable strategy. Two interrelated aspects : management consulting services, on one hand, and corporate social responsibility (CSR), on the other. I'm developping this challenge from an social entrepreneurial point of view : ethics and business are deeply connected (as my education is : I have a Phd in philosophy and an executive master in management). In other words : how the corporate social responsability may be an business opportunity to build a competitive advantage in a global world and not only a constrainted cost to comply with moral obligations under social pressures ? To manage this problem I'm working on a "ethical label" : i.e. a mix between a commercial brand and a open standard, intended to enhance corporate citizenship following a volontary way and local communities sensitive approach.
  
  I'm using the professional social networks, like Xing or LinkedIn, to build a high-level experts network providing me future collaborative resources to work within this business solution : first, to assess corporate projects candidates for ethical certification and, second, to implement ethical certified projects. Let me know if you are interested by this project and how you may involve in its common development. I will contact you back before the "ethical platform" will be launched.
  
  Regards,
  
  Boris.
  
  • 13 Aug 2008, 4:13 pm
  Dr. Boris Libois wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Boris Libois, from Brussels, the small capital city (1,5 > million inhabitants) of a no man's land (Belgium, 10 millions > inhabitants), somewhere in Europe, stuck between Germany, France, > United Kingdom and The Netherlands. Living in a small but complex > country helps being open to understand our global world. I always > have been interested by social and political use and impact of media > systems (press, broadcasting and telecommunications) and information > and communication technologies. That is why I spent about 7 years in > scientific work (I wrote two books in French on freedom of > information and philosophical challenges of public communication). I > also spent the same time in public affairs, aspecially in governement > administration and independant agencies in charge of open governance > and legal regulation of electronic media networks and contents. > > At now I'm starting a new job as a consultant focused on social > accountability and sustainable strategy. Two interrelated aspects : > management consulting services, on one hand, and corporate social > responsibility (CSR), on the other. I'm developping this challenge > from an social entrepreneurial point of view : ethics and business > are deeply connected (as my education is : I have a Phd in philosophy > and an executive master in management). In other words : how the > corporate social responsability may be an business opportunity to > build a competitive advantage in a global world and not only a > constrainted cost to comply with moral obligations under social > pressures ? To manage this problem I'm working on a "ethical label" : > i.e. a mix between a commercial brand and a open standard, intended > to enhance corporate citizenship following a volontary way and local > communities sensitive approach. > > I'm using the professional social networks, like Xing or LinkedIn, to > build a high-level experts network providing me future collaborative > resources to work within this business solution : first, to assess > corporate projects candidates for ethical certification and, second, > to implement ethical certified projects. Let me know if you are > interested by this project and how you may involve in its common > development. I will contact you back before the "ethical platform" > will be launched. > > Regards, > > Boris.