Fasten your seat belts! CMS ready for takeoff?

Today it’s Friday, June 11th and in less than 48 hours Gerrit and Vincent will go to India. But it’s not just the two of us who will travel to Bangalore and Hyderabad. Lieke Rozendal will join us.

Lieke is a student at Nijmegen University and she already is a member of the Hivos team. As a part of her study she is exploiting a research project. She wrote in her ToR: “The purpose of this evaluation is to conduct a scientifical research on NGO-business partnerships on poverty alleviation. The evaluation of this specific case study (the partnership between Hivos/Logica and the MV foundation) can provide useful information to the theoretical discourse on multistakeholder partnerships. It will also present practical recommendations to the involved stakeholders to improve current process of cooperation between the three main stakeholder and to use lessons learned for future partnerships.”

The CMS team has expanded as well. Since May 28th three test analysts have joined the CMS project team. From Rijswijk (the Netherlands) Satyn Ramlal, from Chennai (India) Shivakumar Veeranna and from Bangalore (India) Baskaran Narayanasamy have joined us.

At least one day per week the whole Dutch team is together in our Logica office in Amstelveen. You can see us together here in Amstelveen (from left to right: Satyan, Ruud, Mark, Vincent and GeertJan). Gerrit wasn’t in Amstelveen when the picture was taken.

Despite that Gerrit and Vincent leave in less than 48 hours still a lot of things need to be done. Some practical things like packing our suitcases, but also Gerrit and Vincent have to make sure that they leave the Netherlands with the most up to date documentation and with the prototype of the Child Monitoring System.

During the stay of Gerrit and Vincent in India, the rest of the team will continue working on CMS, hopefully with the tips and tricks provided from India. I.e. a complete Child Monitoring System cannot be shown. Maybe Gerrit and Vincent (and Lieke of course) are ready to fasten their seat belts, but CMS isn’t ready for takeoff (yet).

A few weeks ago we wrote down that our Indian colleagues are very friendly. Last week Gerrit and Vincent asked them if they had any tourist tips for us in Bangalore. They told us: “We all are eagerly looking forward to meet you guys. And how can we let you guys spend the Sunday doing nothing, we will plan out something”.