CIO interview: Cloud lacks silver lining for NGOs

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Cliff Saran.

David Goodman, CIO of non-government organisation (NGO) International Rescue Corporation (IRC), needs a cloud that is open and flexible and available offline. Goodman is the organisation’s first CIO and he has headed IT for seven years. His objective has been to professionalise IT and provide value at a strategic and tactical level.

As IRC has grown from a multi-million dollar organisation to one with an annual budget of half a billion dollars, IT has had to adapt. "I have all the problems of Unilever, but none of the resources," he says. The scope of IT is typical of a large organisation and covers everything from infrastructure to business applications…

But IT is also integral to IRC’s strategy to use technology in programme delivery. For instance, he says a technology solution such as SMS is beneficial in urban refugee situations, like in Syria where people leave their homes with nothing but the clothes they are wearing and their mobile phones…

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