Infosys Technologies Celebrates World Environment Day 2009

Bangalore, India – June 5, 2009: Infosys Technologies today celebrated World Environment Day 2009, through an awareness drive organized by the Infosys Voice of Youth team and the Infy eco-club, with active participation from employees. This marked the culmination of a week-long celebration at Infosys, as part of an ongoing effort by the company to encourage environment conservation consciousness and engage Infoscions to work towards achieving environmental sustainability.

As a part of this campaign, Infosys kicked off a ‘Polythene bag-Free Commitment’ across all Infosys campuses globally. This initiative seeks to ban the use of polythene bags by Infosys employees in an effort to reduce the consumption of non-biodegradable plastics. NGOs like Sandhi and others were invited to set up stalls in the Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mysore and Pune Infosys campuses, to introduce, build awareness and make available eco-friendly cloth bags as alternatives to polythene bags.

Instant dipstick quizzes were conducted across campuses, with questions on Infoscions’ role in ensuring energy efficiency and environment conservation, while also educating them in this regard. Movie screenings aimed at enhancing the environmental consciousness of employees were also organized at some campuses.

Throughout the week, Infy TV, the internal television network of Infosys aired messages from senior management and employees (available on the Infosys YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/InfosysTechnologies), actively propagating the need to become energy efficient and environment-friendly, and the different ways to go about this task. The senior management led by example by taking oaths on Environment Day to actively commit themselves to eco-friendly initiatives.