What's IBM CSC

The IBM Corporate Service Corps program was launched in 2008 to help provide IBMers with high quality leadership development while delivering high quality problem solving for communities and organizations in emerging markets. Teams typically consist of groups of 10-15 IBMers from countries around the world, who come from different business backgrounds with different skills. The teams are sent to emerging markets for four week community-based assignments. Team members are engaged for a total of six months - three months preparing for the trip, one month on location, and two months after the trip back at IBM sharing their experiences. Approximately 500 IBMers are given the opportunity to participate in the program each year, and since the program's inception more than 2400 participants comprising 200+ teams have been sent to 30+ countries around the world.

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

19th of February... just crossed the Ecuador

The end of the project is getting close, so we are reassessing our modules to grant the deliverables quality.
We carried on a mid project assessment yesterday at our hotel with SAPDA's head to ensure we are on the same page and went to the office in the afternoon to keep working with the team.


From left to right: SAPDA's CFO Nurul, Program Manager Micko, Rosa from IBM and interpreter Yunyun

SAPDA and IBM teams

Daily life seems to continue as usual, once ash has been mostly cleared up by the rain. People are still cleaning inside shops, offices...
Most of the population uses any kind of mask. There's a growing fancy mask industry in Indonesia!
We are now stuck with the morning traffic. There are hundreds of motorbikes going around. It makes you wonder how differently people rate their needs, when things that would be considered basic in your country seems to be rare here and viceversa.
Vehicles in Java are clearly a top priority and are therefore at the disposal of most of the population.
A small motorbike (50 cc) costs around 900 Euro and a car 12.000 Euro.
Krupuk with home made Nasi with chicken, coconut milk and lots of chili
Typical food made mainly with yucca (boiled or steemed) coconut, sugar (white or brown) and jelly: DELICIOUS!

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