Details

Name	Canada-Russia Corporate Social Responsibility Project
Project Lead	Wesley Cragg
Email	wcragg@schulich.yorku.ca
Project Status	Completed
Administrator	Michael Windle
Administrator Email	mwindle@cbern.ca
Workspace Portal	http://cbern.sharpschool.com/research/projects/workspaces/canada_russia_csr_project/
External Website
Areas of Interest	Climate Change; Codes of Conduct; Corporate Governance - Transparency; Corruption; Corporate Social Responsibility; Development; Economic; Economic - Environmental; Economic - Social; Indigenous People; Public Policy; Resource Extraction; Sustainability
Region	International; Northern Canada
Summary	The long term objective of this Canada-Russia CSR initiative is to establish a Canada-Russia Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Network with the goal of promoting socially responsible economic development in the Canadian and Russian North. The intention is to build a network that will include Russian and Canadian businesses working in the Russian Arctic and Northern regions and related Canadian and Russian business associations, Russian and Canadian regional administrations and civic leaders, and relevant Canadian and Russian NGOs, experts, and academics.
Description	For some time, DIAND, along with a number of Russian and Canadian private, voluntary and academic sector partners, has been exploring the value of building an initiative focused on socially responsible economic development in the Canadian and Russian North. The long term objective of this Canada/Russia CSR initiative is to establish a Canada-Russia Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Network with the goal of promoting socially responsible economic development in the Canadian and Russian North. The intention is to build a network that will include Russian and Canadian businesses working in the Russian Arctic and Northern regions and related Canadian and Russian business associations, Russian and Canadian regional administrations and civic leaders, and relevant Canadian and Russian NGOs, experts, and academics. Throughout several months of discussion, it has been agreed that utilizing the most up-to-date electronic communication tools is an essential first step in building an effective Canada/Russia CSR initiative. The purpose of this project is to lay the groundwork for the development of two websites designed to enhance the transfer of CSR best practice using the latest communication technologies via the internet including: blogs, wikis, forums, notice boards, live chat, web conferencing, database of research material (including case studies, articles, current events, news archives, event listings) and surveys. The websites will be modeled on the website currently being developed by the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN). The goal is to provide Russian access to the resources and tools in business ethics and corporate social responsibility currently being assembled and developed by CBERN, to facilitate CSR knowledge transfer and to provide a forum for on-going dialogue, planning and knowledge exchange between and among the Network’s partners and participants. The Canadian website will be managed by CBERN at the Schulich School of Business, York University, and the Russian website will be co-managed by the NGO CSR Russian Centre (content work) and Inforus (web design and promotion). Russian Website NGO CSR - Russian Centre Project lead: Dr. Alexey Kostin, Executive Director The CSR - Russian Centre is committed to play a key role in this CSR program as the NGO partner in the areas such as: CSR Russian-Canadian joint pilot projects formulation and implementation CSR training together with Canadian colleagues to the Russian target groups - business, authorities, and NGOs in Moscow and in the regions, undertaking joint research work on CSR in Russian and Canada with the Schulich School of Business and the Canada Eurasia Russia Business Association (CERBA) CSR networking in Russia coordination of the Russian partners' and experts' involvement in the future Canada-Russia CSR program Inforus Project lead: Andrey Masalovich, President Website design and promotion
Lead Organization	CBERN
Start date	2007
End date	2008