Facebook was released on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg along with 4 other friends such as Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Since 2004, Facebook has introduced some of the features contained in the website. The News Feed feature introduced in 2006 allows users to communicate and view their friends' activities on the website. It also allows for direct advertisement to the user's News Feed. In 2007, Facebook introduced the Beacon feature, which collects data about its user activities, focusing on the habits of user shopping activities.
Beacon Tool is used to track user's search data and purchases from partner sites, Facebook then broadcast this information to the user's network. No need to wait too long, this feature reaps a lot of controversy and protests from the online community. Many communities believe that the Beacon Tool is a privacy violation and a user agreement violation by the company. The Beacon Tool records Internet activity of Facebook users and sends this activity back to Facebook which then publishes across the network of Facebook users. The Beacon Tool is applied to all Facebook users by default.
Engaging the community to be involved in company’s social and ecological initiatives has been proven benefited both company and the community. However it is not an easy things to do as what had happened to TMMIN CSR which intended to replant the mangrove forest along the north cost of java. TMMIN had a strong resistance from several groups of local community as they had different and contradict interests.
The decision of Mr Adjie Sapta as the TMMIN CSR general manager to keep approaching the resistance groups to ask their willingness to collaborate with mangrove project was a difficult to work on. However through an intensive communication with those groups and also the assistance of other TMMIN’s stakeholders, the resistance was agree to participate. Through the participation of all community member, TMMIN’ mangrove plantation initiative successfully produce an important outcomes.
The case presents an Indonesian NGO named Indonesia Mengajar (IM) and its holistic approach in education issue. IM believe that the society can be independent by and grow stronger, and believe that the education development in one area is determined by the educational local actors, such as teachers, parents, the regency government and the people.
The case shared the best practice of recruiting young people into education sector. However, IM’s teacher recruitment method is still questioned, whether being a teacher is a temporary or a lifetime profession? Lastly, the IM’s achievements and inspiring young educators’ stories were aims to stimulate the readers, how we as citizen can contribute in developing the nations.