February 20, 2003

High Impact

From the trenches, its often hard to see the positive impact that technology can make. InformationWeek's Mary Hayes shares four stories about "High Impact" tech workers:

a professor striving to turn out socially responsible computer scientists; a former Silicon Valley executive using his industry influence to protect the environment; a technology staffer who got a large company thinking about online privacy; and a dot-com entrepreneur who thinks E-commerce can help the world's poor make a living. While none could be called heroes--each one is simply following a personal code of values--they demonstrate that people in IT can make a difference.

What are you doing?