IBM is an American multinational technology company headquartered in New York, with operations in over 170 countries. The company began in 1911, founded in New York, as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in 1924. IBM produces and sells computer hardware, middleware and software, and provides hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. Inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard diskdrive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language, the UPC barcode, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM).IBM employees have been awarded five Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, ten National Medals of Technology (USA) and five National Medals of Science (USA).

SkillsBuild is a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Initiative of IBM which focuses skill development & livelihood. It is a free access digital learning platform which can be accessed through any device which has a web-browser and is connected to the internet. IBM SkillsBuild is a free-access digital learning platform with more than 85,000 learning activities focusing on industry-relevant skill development in students and jobseekers above 18 years of age. Here students get an opportunity to participate in various master classes, placement assistance programs, and Innovation Camps on various thematic areas. On successful completion of courses, the students can learn IBM certified badges that can be uploaded directly on LinkedIn or stated on the CV. It consists of more than 7000 Learning Activity from Coursera, Code Door, Udemy, Skillsoft, Google, IBM Skills Academy, and many which can be accessed for free through SkillsBuild.

CSRBOX is a CSR advisory firm which acts as an enabler for a collaborative ecosystem in India. We have largest CSR data and intelligence platform in India with a mapping of over 1050 companies’ CSR portfolios, project by project, for the past 4 years. With a blended model of online information and knowledge repository and offline research and advisory services, we have positioned ourselves as one of the leading CSR enablers in India. We have been a catalyst in creating innovative partnerships and CSR project ideas for collaborative models involving government, businesses, philanthropy, and non-profits.

We have partnered with IBM as facilitator for SkillsBuild in India. Since SkillsBuild is a completely free and internationally available online platform, it requires its users to sign up through one of IBM’s country partners for accessing its contents. As the Indian partner for SkillsBuild, we also offer Hand-holding & online capacity development for the digital learning platform along with impact communication and amplification.