ADVOCACY Engaging with stakeholders on matters of public interest As countries, communities and businesses Advancing Sustainability Cultivating inclusion continue to respond to mounting concerns With growing concerns around climate change We feel a deep obligation to act where we around environmental, social and economic and the environmental impacts of e-waste, we can and use our platform to promote positive challenges, we recognize that both continued engagement to make our position on change for all. Since helping found the steering governments and companies have roles to these issues clear. committee for America Competes in 2020, Dell play. That’s why we seek to partner with • Published our Circular Economy Principles has been an active member of this national the public sector on a variety of issues. that also articulated our position on repair and business coalition. America Competes focuses on launched them externally at the start of FY23. making the economic case for LGBTQ equality, particularly in federal law and policy. • Joined Business Roundtable (BRT) and • Signed the America Competes letter of Information Technology Industry Council businesses speaking out against legislation that As we formulate our positions on policy- (ITI) members in support of rejoining the related issues and decide where and when Paris climate agreement and the bipartisan singles out LGBTQ individuals for exclusion or to engage on matters of public interest, we Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. different treatment. engage our stakeholder groups: team members, • In advance of COP26, Michael Dell joined • Continued serving on the Texas Competes customers, partners, communities, investors and more than 90 CEOs as members of the World steering committee. Opposed the transgender policymakers. Here we share highlights from our Economic Forum’s Alliance of CEO Climate youth sports ban legislation in Texas, including FY22 advocacy work. Leaders in signing a public letter sharing testifying before a legislative committee on their readiness to work side by side with Senate Bill 29 and again on House Bill 25. governments in a joint public–private effort to • Continued support of the Time to Vote coalition, accelerate the race to net zero. ensuring our team members in the U.S. had • Joined Digital Climate Alliance to help identify access to time off and resources to vote in ways technology can be leveraged to address their communities. And as an extension of our climate change. commitment to access, we spoke out regarding • Continued membership in GridWise Alliance restrictive voting legislation in our home state. to elevate the use of technology to modernize • Additionally, Dell Technologies and Michael Dell electrical grids. alongside 100+ US corporations signed onto the • Expanded and published an updated Dell Human “We Stand for Democracy” letter. Rights Policy. INTRO OUR PLAN GOALS DASHBOARD ADVANCING SUSTAINABILITY CULTIVATING INCLUSION TRANSFORMING LIVES ETHICS & PRIVACY SUPPLY CHAIN BY THE NUMBERS APPENDIX 17