Development of a REST Web Service to help organizations promote customer involvement in online Corporate Social Responsibility

Abstract

Corporate Social responsibility is an initiative taken very seriously by the corporate world, stakeholders as well as society at large. This in turn creates a positive impact both in terms of social awareness in terms of environmental effects, human rights as well as ethical issues This paper discusses the development of a REST Web Service named AskToDonate. It gives companies and organizations an innovative way to conduct their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities by allowing their customers to choose which projects to donate or contribute to from a list of projects which the company endorses. The companies can collect the users' votes via their websites using the embedded client and forward donations accordingly.