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Promoting CSR across the NTT Group

1. Why we enacted the NTT Group CSR Charter

The NTT Group has long sought to fulfill its responsibilities as a corporate citizen through implementing a range of CSR activities, but we drew up the NTT Group CSR Charter to more clearly define fundamental principles for the active implementation of CSR activities by Group companies.

2. Features of the NTT Group CSR Charter

The NTT Group CSR Charter consists of a statement of our CSR commitment and a description of the following four CSR goals linked by the common theme of communication: communication between people and their communities, communication between people and the global environment, safe and secure communication, and Team NTT communication.

3. The process of drafting the Charter

To draw up the Charter, we first gathered basic information about CSR activities, including existing CSR directions and thinking within NTT and NTT Group companies, as well as ideas and examples of initiatives from leading companies in Japan and abroad, and trends in CSR guidelines and the like.
After organizing this basic information, CSR leaders of major Group companies held meetings to debate and come to a consensus on the desirable form and direction of NTT Group CSR activities so as to ensure that the Charter was endowed with sufficient substance to promote and develop CSR within the Group.
We also sought out objective views in hearings with CSR professionals, using their advice on points of discussion, direction, and the wording of the Charter itself to create a draft. This was then circulated among Group companies to reach a final consensus, after which the Charter was enacted in June 2006.

Drafting the Charter

NTT Group CSR Charter

Our Commitment

As a leader of the information and telecommunications industry, the NTT Group is committed to providing reliable, high-quality services that contribute to the creation of a safe, secure and prosperous society through communications that serve people, communities and the global environment.

Our CSR Goals

Activity categories

●Communication between people and their communities

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We shall strive to create a richer and more convenient communications environment, and utilize our technology to contribute to the resolution of the various issues faced by societies with aging and declining populations.

Leveraging information and communication technology (ICT) to address issues related to declining population and aging society

●Communication between people and the global environment

2.
We shall strive both to reduce our own environmental impacts and build environment-friendly forms of communications, and to provide information and communications services that help to reduce the impact of society as a whole on the global environment.

Reduction of environmental impact to contribute to the creation of a sustainable society

●Safe and secure communication

3.
While striving earnestly to ensure information security and resolve telecommunications-related social issues, we shall do our utmost to provide a safe and secure user environment and contribute to the creation and future development of communication culture.

4.
Fully recognizing the role that telecommunications plays as critical infrastructure supporting society and protecting our livelihoods, we shall strive to offer secure and reliable telecommunications services fortified to withstand disasters and capable of connecting people irrespective of time, location and other circumstances.

Ensuring information security and building a sound user environment

Contributing to society through building and maintaining communications infrastructure

●Team NTT communication

5.
All of us on Team NTT pledge to perform our duties with pride and a keen sense of responsibility in compliance with the highest of ethical standards, striving to fulfill our mission to society by working both for our own development as professionals, and for the further development of a flourishing and vibrant community.

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Team NTT comprises all NTT Group employees, including temporary employees, contract employees, employees of our corporate partners, and also former employees who endorse the NTT Group's CSR activities.

The social mission of all who work under the NTT name