Anyone who has ever baked or cooked knows that you can't turn a great recipe into something amazing without the best quality ingredients. It's the same with building a website.
HERE ARE OUR INGREDIENTS:
- 65 of the best technologies designed for the developing world. Browse six development categories to find your favourite innovation, suggest a project to distribute one of them, or let us know if you manufacture a product that we should list on our site.
- 85 projects connecting life-changing technology with people in 16 countries around the world. Pinpoint where we send technologies and who we are reaching, donate to one of the 13 projects currently fundraising, or join our Tipping Point community to make a regular donation each month, helping fund projects faster and send technology to the last mile sooner.
- 36 project reports, 13 impact assessments and 42 impact stories, sharing what access to simple technology means for some of the 140,000 people we’ve reached, and the feedback we’ve received on the 31 different technologies we’ve worked with to date. See stories, data and feedback in our Impact section.
- 246 blog updates, from our very first, explaining how it all began, to the latest news from our projects in Indonesia, western Kenya and remote Timor-Leste, where simple technologies are making life easier in some pretty tough places.
- 157 partners who have joined us in this amazing journey to serve the last mile.
AND HERE IS THE OUTCOME: A WEBSITE WITH 1,056,964 LINES OF CODE, 2,119 CONTENT ITEMS, 519,460 DATABASE ROWS IN 250 TABLES, AND 6,180 IMAGES, TESTED ON 12 DIFFERENT SYSTEMS AND WORKING AT 4 RESOLUTION POINTS.
If you’re thinking that we must need an ace team in the kitchen, prepping all of these ingredients, well, you’re absolutely right.
HERE’S WHO MADE IT HAPPEN:
- Amber Gregory, possibly the world’s most detail-oriented web developer, who made sure every little piece of the site works properly and looks great, which involved deploying code changes to the site more than 548 times in the last couple of weeks alone!
- John Kelleher, graphic design extraordinaire, who created the new Kopernik brand and the bold, bright and beautiful design of the website.
- Sally Bolton, Communications Officer, whose great writing and storytelling skills made our communication on the new website clear, transparent and engaging.
- Takahito Tsunemi, one half of our Japanese Secretariat, who put aside dozens of other duties to take charge of our Japanese website, and manage the contributions of our Japanese volunteer translation team: Ai Namiki, Risa Komatsuzaki, Kazu Nagatuka and Kimiko Brodard.
- Natalia Vasquez, Communications Fellow, who joined us from Boston for three months to help refresh our migrated content.
- Rara Sekar Larasati, Project Officer, who found the best angle to capture portraits of our team members which pleased even the most camera-shy.
- Sarah Wilson, our newest team member, who helped with the finishing touches.
- Ewa Wojkowska, Kopernik’s Co-Founder and COO, who was not only involved in all planning and decision making, but also proofreading the website.
- And Kasia Triantafelo, who connected the dots, which, with such a talented team, was a piece of cake.
A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR AMAZING TEAM OF WEBSITE TESTERS - VOLUNTEERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD - WHO HAVE MADE SURE EVERYTHING WORKS EXACTLY AS IT SHOULD, MEANING YOU CAN NOW ENJOY BROWSING THE SITE WITH NO (MAJOR) ERRORS:
Basia Madej, Chieko Tsunemi, Christal Setyobudi, Dominika Jaworski, Doug Meikle, Elizabeth Wright, Ewa Pawełczyk, Gordon Young, Harumi Tsuchiya, Jess Lawson, Karyn Boenker, Kazu Ngatuka, Louise Firth, Nathan Luck (who also acted as a consultant on matters of server and database), Naori Ishikawa, Ranna Sayama, Serene Lau, Sue Bolton, Toshie Kobayashi and Yoko Sakai.
Finally, thanks to each and every Kopernik team member, working tirelessly to connect simple technology with even more last mile communities to reduce poverty.
