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On November 26, Kyiv hosted the awarding of companies within the Partnership for Sustainability Award 2020 – an international project competition organized by the UN Global Compact Network in Ukraine. SoftServe took first place in the competition with the project “Accessibility Testing” in the category “Society”.
The competition aims to promote Sustainable Development Goals and partnerships between enterprises, business associations, governments, civil society, and universities. This year, the organizers received more than 150 applications from Ukraine, Belarus, Macedonia, Poland, and Turkey.
Among the jury members for this year’s competition: Reid Steadman, Director and Head of ESG S&P Dow Jones Indices; Judy Njino, Executive Director and Coordinator of the UN General Assembly Network in Kenya; Ayman Chowdhury, Head of the UN Global Compact Secretariat in Canada; Antonio Hautle, Executive Director of the UN General Assembly in Switzerland and Liechtenstein; Rachel Panaino, Executive Director of the UN General Assembly in the UAE.
The main goal of the project presented by SoftServe was to teach and hire the visually impaired people as specialists of digital accessibility testing of the company’s technological products.
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