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HP to help charities feed the hungry
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October 18, 1999 by Dan Briody |
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(IDG) -- Hewlett-Packard is putting its e-services initiative to work to feed the hungry in a nationwide collaborative project to help bring surplus food to families in need.
In one of the first implementations of e-services, a brand of Internet-based business-to-business applications that HP has marketed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and America's Second Harvest have teamed with HP to create a portal called Resource Link. The idea is to match food manufacturers that have surplus food with charitable organizations and transportation companies across the country.
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"Charities post their specific needs and likewise manufacturers post their surplus," said Madge Whistler, services marketing manager for HP. "With e-services, supply and demand are dynamically linked. It's all about connecting the manufacturers with the charities."
Through Resource Link, charities are also able to identify delivery trucks that have space available and can afford to deliver the surplus food. Though the Web site will link companies dynamically, it will not be using HP's much-hyped e-speak technology, which has yet to be implemented.
HP officials estimate that 91 billion pounds of surplus food from manufacturers is wasted every year. In the United States, it is estimated that 36 million people go hungry in any given year.
The project is limiting its scope to the United States this year, but has not ruled out a worldwide implementation in the future.
Dan Briody is an InfoWorld editor at large, based in New York.
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