Cultivating tangible change

The World Bank provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries with the aim of decreasing poverty. With its partners it provides loans and funds projects in areas like education, health, infrastructure development, and communications.

We worked with the World Bank over a couple years to provide strategy and technical consulting as well as to develop several websites and internal systems. With its staff spread out in countries around the world, the World Bank came to us for tools to better connect them and improve communications. We helped them start one of their first blogs to facilitate good external communications. We developed one of their most-used intranets to improve internal communications and built a private community portal to help Global Development Learning Network members in more than 80 countries collaborate and share ideas. We also worked closely with the World Bank to build a super-aggregator called the BuzzMonitor – the proof of concept for Managing News – to track conversations about the organization and development topics important to them in traditional and non-traditional media.

As we always try to do with large organizations, we provided training along the way so that the World Bank's internal online team could support its own products and continue on its own with day-to-day development tasks. They have great in house Drupal skills today that allow them to keep working with Drupal on their own, which has helped deeper and grow their commitment to Drupal as a platform.

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