CARE Canada Uses Livelink to Manage Global Social Change Via Extranet.CHICAGO, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998-- Livelink Enables Globally-Dispersed Non-Governmental Organizations to Share Best Practices Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :OTEXF, TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). ) announced today that CARE Canada, a member of CARE International, one of the world's largest non-governmental development organizations (NGOs), is implementing Livelink to share best practices among other NGOs around the world. CARE International allocates $400 million to $600 million in aid every year for emergency relief, rehabilitation, as well as sustained development Sustained development refers to economic growth which continues at a steady pace, leading to the ever-increasing general prosperity of a population. This is typically held to require a free market economy. [1] References 1. ^ George W. projects globally. CARE Canada's implementation of Livelink is two-tiered. First, CARE used Livelink to establish an intranet, managing program implementation and best practices for employees. Secondly, with assistance from the Canadian International Development Agency The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is a Canadian government agency which administers foreign aid programs in developing countries. CIDA operates in partnership with other Canadian organizations in the public and private sectors as well as other (CIDA/ACte locations, to have access to best practices. As part of the process of implementing new long-term development programs, CARE collects standard indicators from itrs and the information is used to generate best practice reports and proposals for new development projects. "Livelink enables us to improve the quality of the work roject in the Livelink repository and other agricultural programs all over the world are able to access this tegrated support for both intranet and extranet deployment, further building Livelink's market leadership position as the industry standard for collaborative knowledge ments by providing intelligent access to the entire corporate knowledge base. "MODEL chose to work with Open Text and use Livelink because they are in the forefront terprise document management, virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling See calendaring. and information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. services are tightly integras full functionality. Livelink runs on Microsoft Windows NT(R) and the leading UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms and supports mth has been fuelled by the rapid market acceptance of its innovative collaborative knowledge management system, Livelink. The company has been named the growth leader by the Delphi Group and the market share leader by International Data Corporation. Further information about the company, its products and services, and its partners and customers can be found at http://www.opentext.com. Note to Editors: Open Text and Livelink are trademarks of Open Text Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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