Microsoft Norway is delighted to give the upmost gratitude for signing the Microsoft Partner Pledge and being part of our journey to make the world a better place.
As a partner of Microsoft in Norway, we share Microsoft’s global vision to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Together, Microsoft and its partners can and do have a powerful impact. Our organization will therefore strive to, wherever possible:
- Ensure we are an ambassador of Microsoft Norway’s Digital Skills initiatives:
- Raise internal awareness of the Digital Skills initiatives and take advantage of all opportunities to provide staff with new skills training and certifications.
- Promote the Digital Skills initiatives to customers.
- Ensure we are building AI in a responsible and ethical way, consistent with AI design principles such as:
- Fairness – Use AI to drive efficiencies while protecting dignity and guarding against bias.
- Accountability – Decisions made by AI must be accountable to citizens and consumers.
- Explainable – AI must be explainable and understandable.
- Ethics – AI must assist humanity and respect rights, such as privacy.
- Ensure we are focused on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint through:
- Conversations: endeavor to make sustainability part of every supplier and enterprise customer engagement moving forward.
- Partnerships: embedding sustainability into strategic alliances.
- Transparency: increasing transparency around our carbon footprint for our services and offerings.
- Tools: utilize new tools to enable customers to better monitor and manage their carbon footprint.
- Endeavour to build a more diverse and inclusive workforce through:
- Having a plan to improve inclusion, including adopting inclusive recruitment and promotion processes and practices to support the development and retention of a diverse
- Ensure managers have a deep understanding and commitment to building inclusive culture within their organisation.
- Addressing racial and gender inequality in the workforce by striving for strong representation at all levels from individual contributors to senior management.
- Ensure everyone in the organization regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or other relevant protected status feels included.
- Endeavour to build accessible solutions and services, to empower our employees and customers with disabilities for a more inclusive future.
