Pro Bono Webinar - Zoom Platform, May 2020

Pro Bono Provider: Analysis and Consulting Team - ACT

Beneficiaries: Local Civil Society Organizations, Social Entreprise, Community Based Organizations

Problem Description:

Following the spread of COVID-19, organizations were facing huge challenges, especially those organizations who are working for public benefit. They were obliged to shift from remote to online working regime and needed to choose proper methods or ways to continue communication and support their beneficiaries and thus, keep their work ongoing.

During identifying those problems, it was discovered that they were strongly interested in online communication platforms. As long as, online communication was very new and vague at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, the member company of Georgian Pro Bono Network – ACT decided to share its own expertise and experience to the organizations working for public good about online communication platform – Zoom meetings and Zoom Webinar.

Therefore, ACT was very successful to launch and shift to online communication platform – Zoom within the organization and had significant experience in this field, decided to share it with Pro Bono beneficiary organizations.

Services Delivered:

According to the fact, that Zoom discovered to be the mostly usable online communication platform among organizations working for public good, ACT conducted two Pro Bono webinars: on May 11, was conducted first webinar about Zoom Meeting and on May 25, another one about Zoom Webinar.

Result of Pro Bono Mediation:

Up to 100 participants attended the webinars, representing local Civil Society Organizations. Within the meetings following topis were discussed: creating Zoom account, reviewing Zoom packages, reviewing Zoom Webinar and its advantages, language issue in Zoom, etc..

Pro Bono webinar was led by George Kikabidze, Head of IT Department of ACT.

Mediator:

Pro Bono webinars were mediated by the Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia within the frames of "Georgian Civil Society Sustainability Initiative". The initiative is funded by the European Union and co-funded by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). The project is implemented by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)