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Advantive News: Grameen Foundation launches Village Phone Direct
By Marc Pollard | August 28, 2007
The Grameen Foundation has engaged Advantive to design and develop a new web portal to promote its Village Phone Direct program to microfinance banks around the world. Requirements for the project include the ability to maintain a strong fit with the visual branding of the main Grameen Foundation website, a password-protected membership and discussion forum section, and a content management capability that allows Foundation staff to update website text and images themselves without programmer involvement. Since the Foundation is a non-profit organization, its project budget was limited. Advantive was able to deliver a dynamic website ahead of schedule with all requested features by using the Joomla open source content management system. Joomla is highly customizable and has hundreds of add-on packages available. In its first month, the Village Phone Direct website has received visits from prospects in over 50 countries. Advantive continues under contract to provide support and enhancements to the Village Phone Direct website.
The Village Phone Direct website is: http://www.villagephonedirect.org.
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