Cultivating tangible change
The World Bank
Situation: CommNet, the 670+ person communications team at The World Bank, is spread out in dozens of countries around the world, and its Washington, DC-based staff frequently travel and work from abroad. The team needs to be able to discuss their work, collaborate on projects, and share documents, deadlines, and meeting times in a secure and timely manner that works for individuals in different countries and office settings.
Solution: We built the intranet that the communications department uses to meet these needs. It addresses all of the needs stated above with the latest tools, is customized to their workflows, and is integrated with their third-party enterprise systems, all the way down to the sign-on protocol. Since so many of their programs have a regional or country-specific focus, we geotagged the information housed in their intranet and display this information on a map. Staff can then search for relevant content in this way and drill down to get exactly what they’re looking for.
Additionally, the World Bank wanted to be able to pull information out of the intranet and publish it on other websites to further open up the lines of communication and increase access to this content. We made it possible to do this by creating numerous republishing channels via private RSS feeds that can easily be pulled into and displayed on other intranets on their private network.
intranet, community portal, built and designed several websites, technical consulting, technical training
Work
intranet, community portal, built and designed several websites, technical consulting, technical training
Strategy Focus
Salon.com Features World Bank's use of Managing News and Drupal
Our Team Aggregator Catches Some Buzz
Our Team Aggregator Catches Some Buzz
Salon.com has an awesome story today about Pierre Wielezynski's work helping the World Bank become better listeners. The article explores why he came up with some of the functionality that we built for him in the BuzzMonitor, or what is now being called the "Super Aggregator."
From the article:
The World Bank contracted with the software firm Development Seed to build the new program, with additional input from the World Resources Institute. Development Seed relied on the popular open-source content management system Drupal for its core code. Last week the bank announced that version 1.0 of BuzzMonitor was available for free download to all comers, and suggested that it was particularly applicable to nonprofit organizations interested in monitoring what the Web was saying about them. (The decision to open-source BuzzMonitor need not be taken as some kind of altruistic move by the bank. By using base code that is protected by the free software GNU General Public License, my understanding is that the bank was required to make any modifications or add-ons freely available.)