It's December, the holiday season is upon us and gift giving is in full swing. But, did you know giving a child the chance at a better life is possible this year by doing something other than opening up your wallet? World Vision, a global humanitarian organization, presents an alternative type of gift – one composed of your time, thoughtfulness, expertise and ideas. The organization has recently launched Sponsor a Solution, a Brightidea-powered challenge looking to the public to donate their software development skills to help solve vital technology challenges encountered while providing aid. Technology is critical to World Vision and its field workers around the world as they continually use it to properly communicate and better help disadvantaged children, families and communities around the world.

"This is an important pilot for us to engage the IT professional community, within and outside World Vision, in helping us innovate and deliver faster and better solutions to the challenges we face in the field," said Govi Pillai, World Vision's global ICT leader.

World Vision handles numerous challenges when facilitating aid and have chosen to focus on the two most crucial areas identified by field workers scattered across the globe: field data and collection and fixed asset and inventory tracking. Since launching, the platform has already received a series of ideas, such as a proposed offline capability to collect children's data and the creation of a mobile app. Sponsor a Solution is currently open for submissions.

"The Sponsor a Solution campaign is about finding a better way of ramping up innovation quickly by getting many great minds - beyond our employee base - working on various issues at the same time," said Adam Dayvolt, World Vision's global ICT representative who is spearheading the campaign.

 

Join World Vision and Brightidea in spreading the word and embracing the holiday spirit of generosity by donating invaluable time and ideas to those in need. Post a solution today!