Foundation Projects
Empowering Non-profit Organizations (NPOs) and Micro-enterprises with ECHO (formerly known as DWMA- Distributed Work Management Application )
Corpcom Services Sdn Bhd
ECHO is an Internet--mobile collaborative cloud tool on an integrated platform enabling one person to efficiently coordinate unlimited number of people in diverse locations to achieve group level social economic missions such as activity coordination, income-generation and bulk distribution/group production.
The use of SMS/MMS as an alternative communication channel for the home-bound urban poor enabling them to earn income through micro-enterprises attached to a self-help e-community (www.ehomemakers.net) without leaving the home while the administrator coordinates them in the office without tedious phone calls or face-to-face visits.
This application has enabled the dissemination of information and earning opportunities to an underserved community whose ICT literacy rate is low and the local ICT infrastructure is unable to support direct interaction with more sophisticated devices.
26 Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) also use ECHO to organize volunteers/affiliates and beneficiaries for purposes such as meetings, voting for council members/activity options, trainings, activity coordination, surveys, announcements and income-generation for members. One staff member can organize thousands of volunteers, the volunteer leaders can also organize volunteers in own groupings for multiplier effects. Simplicity within the context of community empowerment is ECHO’s contribution to non-profit deployment as it is a tool for community organizing, sourcing, distribution and information collating.
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