MANDATE:
Maternal & Neonatal Directed Assessment of Technology
RTI International
Relationship: 2001 — Present
MANDATE is a collaborative project between RTI International and Applied Strategies, created to bring awareness to global maternal and neonatal mortality. The project is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The website for the project seeks to educate the public about this important issue and where the problem areas exist around the world. The website also illustrates how technology can help to make a difference in reducing the number of mortalities. By engaging with the public, the website is working to solve this problem together.
The client’s goals were to create an attractive, user friendly site that would educate and engage their audience. It was crucial to have regularly updated content, so the need for a content management system was vital for an efficient site.
To accommodate the needs for a website that could easily be maintained by the client, the website has been built using WordPress as the content management system (CMS). WordPress, typically applied as a blogging platform, also has great benefits as a content management system. The attractive user interface is easy for an administrator to use and provides the needed functionality for the MANDATE website. The design was created to evoke an emotional connection with the tender subject matter of the project while staying consistent with the branding of RTI International.
“We appreciated the personal attention we received as the DesignHammer team created a solid foundation to help us launch our project.”
