IBM Lotus and PSC Help Facilitate an African Social Responsibility Program

The collaboration tools of Notes/Domino and Lotus Sametime allowed the local staff in Africa to work closely with the worldwide authors and editors to develop the Zain Africa Challenge (ZAC). In fact, the real-time collaboration tools of Lotus Sametime not only changed the entire process and reduced costs, but transformed the ZAC culture for the better. In the end, by automating this process with Lotus Notes/Domino, the ZAC was conducted flawlessly for students from 100+ universities across Africa and will reach an estimated 250 million people with the televised events. PSC was recognized for their effort with the 2009 Lotus Award for Best Philanthropic Solution.