Building communities to build better technologies
Our deep commitment to open source communities is key to our success. It extends beyond our technology and those who develop it to the people that our technology serves. Technology is increasingly what determines access, information, and control to everyone, from patients, to scientists, to students.
Red Hat helps break down the barriers of technology literacy with the resources and access required to meet the needs of others. Red Hatters make impactful connections with each other and with our partners and customers.
They are a part of local neighborhoods and global ecosystems, like open source projects. These interconnections create the networks we need to support everyone with technology. Red Hat doesn't just provide innovative software for Fortune 500 organizations, but aims to see that innovation benefit the world at large. We do our best when we do good together.
Red Hat doesn't just provide innovative software for Fortune 500 organizations, but aims to see that innovation benefit the world at large.
We do our best when we do good together.
Contributing to help create a better world
Our business is committed to achieving sustainable success and contributing to our communities.
We have fiscal and business responsibilities, but also social responsibilities that extend beyond our care for open source communities, and into communities of profession, education, or practice.
Innovating with the global open source community
Working with Red Hat partners and customers gives us ample opportunity to both serve the business, and the greater good. Through a shared technological process, we strengthen the global fabric of society.
Public-serving organizations
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the largest UK central government department, saw its digital traffic jump 10x after millions lost their jobs to COVID-19 and needed a more distributed system to handle benefit claims. Red Hat helped DWP build an automated API platform that successfully managed the influx of Universal Credit and other critical aid.
Healthcare
The research arm of Clalit, a public health services provider, adopted Red Hat OpenShift AI to make research environments faster to deploy and easier to manage. After gathering volumes of structured patient health data for over 20 years, Clalit is using the platform to build learning processes and algorithms to identify new trends, patient and disease behavior patterns, and more.
Scientific research & development
Red Hat collaborated with Axiom Space, a leading provider of in-space infrastructure, to launch and optimize Axiom Space’s Data Center Unit-1 (AxDCU-1), powered by Red Hat Device Edge. The data processing prototype tests applications in cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), data fusion and space cybersecurity.
Environment & sustainability
Guided by environmental policy and ISO 14001 certification, Red Hat is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace through operations, procurement, and products that conserve natural resources and protect the environment. To help solve the global climate crisis, Red Hat aims to achieve net-zero operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 through energy efficiency and renewable energy investments. Red Hat environmental data is consolidated with our parent company, IBM, and publicly reported.
Education
Boston University’s computer science and electrical and computer engineering departments used Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS to create a scalable environment. The environment teaches students critical concepts of computing systems and provides a platform for hosting open source textbook and interactive lectures.
Technology
FIWARE, a non-profit driving open standards for smart solutions, developed an open source platform using Red Hat OpenShift to help cities of all sizes manage smart data. This collaboration created a scalable framework for solutions that improve urban living and industrial efficiency. By democratizing access to these insights, the partnership turns shared technology into a tool for global progress.
Helping Red Hatters make a difference, everywhere
Our philosophy is people focused, and stretches across local neighborhoods and global regions. We are committed to supporting our associates, their families, and the causes and places important to them. We concentrate our corporate social responsibility efforts in the areas that Red Hatters care about most, whether local, regional, or global.
Volunteer programs
Day of Volunteering
As part of We Are Red Hat week, this is a centrally organized day dedicated to all associates who wish to volunteer at a non-profit organization of their choosing.
Every year, Red Hatters have opportunities to volunteer at non-profit organizations of their choosing, and are offered work time to participate.
Team volunteering
We encourage volunteering and social service activities for team-building. Many of our team gatherings, networking events, and corporate events include chances to give back.
in 2024:
2,398 Red Hat volunteers engaged for 13,131 volunteer hours
Donation matching
Red Hatters are free to choose how they give back and who they give to.
Volunteer rewards match volunteer hours to dollars, allowing associates to serve programs in their communities directly.
Gift matching, a one-to-one match for Red Hat associates, gives associates the option to donate locally or more broadly, up to a yearly limit.
We donate to non-profit organizations to help aid in disaster relief. We are a global company that supports communities where our teams are based.
We are unified with and supported by IBM corporate social responsibility practices, encompassing environmental, ethical, philanthropic, and economic initiatives.
Governance
Our culture is based on ethics, transparency, and accountability. We build internal and external trust through shared policies, processes, controls, and training. Our business policies cover guidance on safety, labor and human rights, ethics, and other responsible business practices. Many of these policies are published openly.
