Core versus Context: Delivering needed Web Services through the portal

Providing Web Services to USAID Mission Partner's Through the Portal

Provide:

Allieviate need for NGOs to have to purchase, install, configure, maintain, support, upgrade IT hardware and software (contextual activities) so that can concentrate on Core organization goals.*

• Cost-effective workflow/meetings  online across time and distance
• Reduces paper and travel costs
• Allows smaller NGOs with less operating budgets to take a collaborative leadership role
• Report creation, storage, distribution: Content Management System (CMS) re-use knowledge
• Authoring and Publishing System for funding, marketing
• Means of creating, posting to the web, sharing, adapting, and re-using emerging multi media content/messages (videos, audio files, slides, pdfs)
• Web-based interactive Calendaring system
• E-learning, training tools, marketing, management
• Mechanism for News feeds
• Newsletter
• Collaboration tools: Discussion, Commenting, Forum tools

Core:  directly related to organizations survival

Contextual: Often extraneous and not directly related to mission survival