Letter To Shareholders - Mitac

3.3.4 Social contribution to environmental protection, community involvement, contributions, services,
welfare, consumer rights, human rights, safety and hygiene and other social responsibilities and their
implementation:
1.Environmental protection
(1)Systems: a. In response to RoHS/WEEE direction, the company has established a management system for
green products and green supply chains.
b. For corporate social responsibility, we will regulate the company by a self claimer in products.
(2)Outcome: a. In order to fulfill the responsibility of the electronics industry, the company is in the down-stream
of the supply chain; therefore, the company is able to demand suppliers to widely use green
materials to reduce or stop using hazardous substances by being certified as a green plant, i.e.
GPMS or QC80000.
b. Has already announced the self claimer of EU’s environmental requirement for PND products.
The result of MiTAC’s environmental protection has appeared and promoted MiTAC’s honesty
and competition.
2.Community involvement
(1) System: Encourage employees to start charitable clubs and sponsor and participate in charities.
(2) Outcome: Employee clubs collect and donate materials to needed groups, including women, children, disabled,
abused and people receiving life-support.
3. Social contributions:
(1) System: a. Sponsor Y.S. Design Award to nurture domestic designers.
b. Provide internships for students.
c. Provide different industrial conferences to share managerial and industrial experiences.
(2) Outcome: a. Y.S. Design Award is open for products for the seventh year and the sixth year’s finale. There are
two awards: website design and industrial design. The purpose is to cultivate potential designers,
and increase competing abilities. We invite famous designers to share their experiences via blogs
and conferences.
b. Provide awards for corporate internships and encourage other excellent students to apply for
intern opportunities.
4. Charity:
(1)Policy: initiate employees' donations to the needs of society and the nation.
(2)Progress: the arrival of Typhoon Morakot caused severe disasters to the central and southern parts of
Taiwan in 2009. To support the nationwide rescue and recovery efforts, MiTAC donated a total of
$5 million, including $4 million cash donated to The Red Cross Society of the Republic of China
and 100 units of Mio GPS Navigation Devices that feature the “Mio Traffic Message Channel”
function to Chiayi, Tainan, and Taitung County Governments to aid their rescue. In addition,
MiTAC also encouraged employees to donate one-day salary to help rebuild from the disaster.
5. Consumer rights:
(1) System: to better service consumers, MiTAC is dedicated to developing innovative and complex system
management and to promoting this concept to all affiliates worldwide.
(2) Outcome: Our GPS brands have services for consumers: a. Mio fix: fix machines at any place and any time. b.
Mio camp: Clients bought Mio can have a free course. c. Mio Express: Clients can update maps and
get free product instruction in the store.
6. Safety and Hygiene:
(1) System: In order to increase precautions and prevent vocational hazards, death and protests, MiTAC has been
certified as ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 and been audited periodically.
(2)Outcome:
a. In order to protect employees’ safety and health, and to prevent vocational hazards and diseases
from happening, MiTAC encourages employees to join the improvement committee.
b. Continuously improve environmental safety and hygiene: Audit and assess all investments to
promote continuous improvement.
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