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Brief
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is an alliance driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition. Created in 2002 at a Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Children, GAIN supports public-private partnerships to increase access to the missing nutrients in diets necessary for people, communities and economies to be stronger and healthier. In less than a decade, GAIN has been able to scale its operations by investing in and working alongside more than 600 companies across 36 large-scale collaborations in more than 25 countries, reaching close to 400 million people with nutritionally enhanced food products. GAIN is a Swiss foundation headquartered in Geneva with a special international status granted by the Swiss government. Its worldwide presence includes an office in Washington D.C. as well as regional and country representatives in Johannesburg, New Delhi, Cairo, Nairobi, Kabul and Shanghai to support its activities.
Results
InterHyve Systems has been assisting GAIN since 2002 providing day-to-day IT-support, systems maintenance and strategic consulting services. GAIN has grown rapidly over the last decade, and has achieved its mandate with a robust and flexible technological platform.
Deliverables
On demand IT service offering that allowed for the provision of technical services to respond to changing needs
Aggressive procurement service that focuses on sourcing hardware and software solutions aimed at non-profit organisations.
Project management services coordinating the seamless interaction of various technical experts such electricians, developers, telecoms, air-conditioning specialists etc…
Implementation of a 24/7 helpdesk and monitoring teams/systems to ensure both proactive and reactive technical service.
Brief
Design and set-up a new information technology platform for Radio Frontier – www.radiofrontier.ch – the new commercial English radio station for Geneva, Lausanne and neighbouring France Radio Frontier began broadcasting live from its new Geneva studios on 1 June 2011. For the first 10 month launch period the radio station is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on-line via its popular interactive website www.radiofrontier.ch and via mobile phone applications. From Spring 2012 the station will be broadcast on DAB+ throughout the Suisse Romande region and neighbouring France, a transmission footprint of 2m people with a potential Anglophone audience of 500,000.
Results
A state of the art small business network allowing for a PC and Mac systems that dovetails into our radio software system.
Deliverables
Analyse the technical requirements of the radio to identify systems that resolve specific technical challenges Work with local distributors to identify, order and implement the most cost effective hardware and software solutions
Coordinate the different technical participants to ensure the delivery of the platform according to a tight schedule to meet the launch deadline.
