The leading provider of governance, risk
and compliance software products, Ideagen Plc, has announced a partnership with
the World Health Organisation (WHO) to support its vital collaboration and
policy making work with member states and other interested bodies during the coronavirus
pandemic.
The 73rd annual World
Health Assembly took place earlier this week (May 18/19). In normal times there
would be more than 60 items on the agenda for discussion, but this year there
were only two, with the main one, unsurprisingly, being coronavirus and the
global response to it.
The Assembly was due be attended by
delegations from the 194 Member States of the WHO, as well as NGOs,
philanthropic organisations and other interested parties. This year many
delegations were led by Heads of States and the number of people attending was
expected to be around 4,000. Normally this meeting would involve face to face
gatherings and discussions in the Palais de Nation in Geneva, but social
distancing measures required meant that was impossible this year.
Ideagen’s leading document collaboration
and governance software, PleaseReview, provided the WHO with a solution to
their problems. PleaseReview allows for the real-time collaboration on
documents, offers a secure means of capturing comments and provides a full
audit trail of responses, changes and agreements. When each word is poured over
and debated by thousands of people and the outcome of those debates has such
global significance, getting it right is of paramount importance to the WHO.
A spokesperson for the WHO, said: “PleaseReview is working with the World Health Organization in
support of WHO’s COVID-19 outbreak response by providing services to WHO on a
pro bono basis to allow WHO to conduct its first-ever digital World Health
Assembly”.
Adopting PleaseReview meant the WHO could
invite member states to conduct a first review of policy documents, that would
normally be conducted face to face, in a secure, online environment. As well as
ensuring social distancing was maintained, this also saved a huge amount of
time, which is incredibly valuable during this uncertain period.
Ben Dorks, CEO of Ideagen, said: “We are
delighted to support the WHO in their life saving work, especially at such a
crucial period. Everyone at Ideagen has enormous respect for the work being
done by the WHO, both in the fight against coronavirus and in their ongoing
efforts to tackle other global health issues. The scale of the challenge facing
them is enormous and we are extremely proud that we can offer them the use of PleaseReview,
a product that will make that challenge a little easier to handle.”
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