HP’s Social Impact Team is honored to be named TIME’s Team of the Year, presented by Smartsheet. It's a humbling recognition – one that is being awarded for the first time to “an enterprise whose commitment to communication, collaboration and innovation made a significant impact on the world.” 
 
Our team is unique and diverse – every single one of us, for example, has worked for a non-profit entity at some point before joining HP (I’ll never forget my years spent working and learning in the rice paddies of Southeast Asia!). We value the importance of seeking out those with lived experience when it comes to solutions-mining. We know what it’s like to fundraise for a cause. Perhaps most importantly, we strive to lead our work – and our engagement with one another – with empathy. 
 
Our team is dedicated and passionate, working tirelessly to accelerate equitable access for all to education, healthcare, and economic opportunity – but here’s the secret. Not everyone on “our team” wears an HP badge. 
 
In fact, our team stretches across the globe – they are in community centers serving refugees and displaced populations, creative labs enabling childhood literacy, mobile healthcare units reaching rural populations, the formal – and informal -- classrooms around the world.  
 
When HP committed to accelerate digital equity for 150 million people by 2030, we knew its achievement required an ‘all hands on deck’ approach. About a third of the world’s population remains locked out of essential economic and social opportunities because of the digital divide. It’s a trillion-dollar problem that no one entity can solve alone. We’re fortunate to have a team made up of dozens of local and international organizations, our ‘on the ground partners’ who help guide where HP can make the greatest impact and provide invaluable expertise on how to create lasting change.