French president still pushing Apple, Amazon to join ‘Tech for Good’ initiative — Apple World Today

The French government released a list of 75 executives of tech companies that had signed up to the initiative so far, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft President Brad Smith. Apple declined to comment to Reuters, but French officials said talks with the group were ongoing and they could still join the initiative, details of which will be published officially by Tuesday.

Tech for Good is composed of five groups of 15 to 20 organizations, including large companies (tech and non-tech), NGOs, investment funds and startups. The groups develop new cross-company initiatives while delivering on the engagements taken by the more than 80 CEOs during the 2019 Summit, hosted by Macron on the eve of the 4th annual VivaTech conference in Paris, France. The common ambition of the Tech for Good Summit, VivaTech and the Tech for Good startup ecosystem is to increase collaboration of actors of all sizes around “for good” initiatives.