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The James 1:27 Trust, in collaboration with technical partner Automated Product Development, is located at the Innovation Hub where they are building what is referred to as the James Platform. “The Platform is our contribution to social entrepreneurship and innovation” says CEO, Robert Botha.
The purpose of the Platform is to build a Management System for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (MSOVC). South Africa, like the rest of the region, is in a crisis concerning the proliferation of orphans and vulnerable children. As one in six South African adults is HIV positive, the collateral damage is enormous resulting in a substantial increase in the vulnerability of affected children.
The James Platform is designed to provide a scalable ICT solution to community based organisations operating in this field. The Trust is at present partnering with several of these organisations. The Platform consists of SAP Business One’s Enterprise Resource Plan (ERP), together with PTC’s Windchill a Product Lifecycle Management System (PLM), and a Sagem secure remote terminal delivery system. The latter consists of Morph Touch-2, remote terminal biometric scanners.
The intention is to construct the Platform in order for the various systems to be integrated and eventually automated. This will allow for the leveraging of social capital out of the information society in which the global village transfers resources to the local village. Millions of people are responding to the crisis by contributing relatively small amounts of support in a manner that protects the principles of community development while at the same ensuring that the transfer is secure. Matching virtual households with child and granny-headed households provides an innovative way of ensuring sustainability.
The Trust’s care cycle covers:
- emergency relief
- holistic development
- coaching and mentoring
- as well as support towards independence
“South Africa’s history provides for inspirational instruction. Millions of ordinary people were mobilised nationally and internationally against apartheid, the giant at the time. We can draw from this past success and by using the same strategy, mobilise millions of ordinary people to respond to the new giant of our time, HIV and Aids.”
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