Our methodology focused on a balance between rigor to ensure consistency and accuracy by:
Validating positive impact for each individual counted
Ensuring each person counted is unique, counted only once over the period of our goal
Attributing positive impact to Cisco's breadth of offerings of funding, technology, and expertise
Cisco engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to conduct an independent, limited assurance of progress toward our goal, our methodology, and validation processes between FY16–FY22. We applied the same approach and methodology in FY23 to ensure our path to one billion was sound.
