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IBM has made 21 voluntary environmental commitments that address a range of pressing sustainability issues. These pledges support or complement IBM’s recent announcement that it would reach...

Smallholder coffee and cocoa farmers use IBM Food Trust blockchain technology and powerful AI in IBM Watson Decision Platform for Agriculture to improve farm-level decision-making and speed up transactions.

IBM, Merck and the broader Employer coalition within OneTen are committed to place participants in full-time family sustaining careers that do not require a 4 year degree.

IBM announced the availability of Reigniting Small Business from IBM, a program aiming to provide no-cost, education and coaching designed to help small businesses run their companies more effectively as the COVID-19 pandemic eases.

This supports IBM's goal of helping to skill 500,000 people by the end of 2021 through the IBM SkillsBuild program.

Build Change deploys machine learning solution to evaluate construction quality

Despite a year of intense global focus on social justice issues, nearly half of lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans recently surveyed by the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value (IBV) stated they believed that their employer discriminates against people of their sexual orientation.

Insights from an IBM-hosted World Ocean Day panel on how emerging technologies will drive sustainable aquaculture