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44 Corporate Responsibility Award
Honoring our responsibility to society
As a leading global company, we have a responsibility to comply with the highest
ethical and legal standards while protecting the environment and benefi ting
so ciety as a whole. The Siemens Corporate Responsibility Award honors individ-
ual employees and employee teams whose projects highlight our commitment
to making the world a better place.
Out of 182 entries from over 35 countries, fi ve
teams made it into the fi nal round of this year’s
Corporate Responsibility Award competition. In
October 2007, the fi nalists presented their projects
to the Company’s executive management at the
Siemens Business Conference in Berlin. In recog-
nition of their achievements, CEO Peter Löscher
awarded the fi rst-place team €50,000 and each of
the runner-up teams €10,000 for the continuation
and further development of their projects.
The prize-winning project in 2007 –
The Safe Water Kiosk
First prize went to a team from I&S Water Tech-
nologies in Australia for developing an effi cient,
reliable system – known as the Safe Water Kiosk –
for the treatment of drinking water. According to
estimates from the World Health Organization,
1.2 billion people in the world currently have no ac-
cess to clean drinking water – especially in regions
with poor infrastructure. Addressing this major
challenge of our time, the Australian team – work-
ing together with the SkyJuice Foundation of Sydney
– developed a solution using Siemens technology.
The inexpensive water fi ltration system, which oper-
ates very reliably over a long period with minimum
maintenance, has already been introduced in Kenya,
where it’s pro viding 2,500 people with clean drink-
ing water. More than 300 of the systems are now de-
ployed in 16 countries on four continents.
Peter Löscher presents
Bruce Biltoft, Rhett
Butler and Tony
Handakas (from left to
right) with this year’s
Corporate Responsi-
bility Award.