Case Study: Winning Winrock

Winrock International India(WII), based in Gurgaon, Haryana, is a non-profit organization working for natural resources management, energy, and environment, and climate change. The organization has around 70 employees with centers across Hyderabad, Kawardha (Chhattisgarh), Baripada (Orissa), Bhopal, Lucknow and Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh).

WII primarily looks after encouraging the use of natural resources, managing them in a sustainable manner so that they are reusable and available in abundance. They educate the communities about the global climate change and the need to develop a long-term strategy for the rural regions to adopt use of natural resource in daily lives that are ecologically friendly and easily accessible in their areas as well.

As a part of the task, the team travelled to villages across the centers, promoting the use of renewable resources, reducing carbon usage in daily. This included building communities, institutions, and group for people. They organized workshops and training classes on several occasions. While they accrued the hardware long back, they realized the need for software upgrade. With tight budgets purchasing new licences software was a distant plan.

The organization recently deployed Microsoft Office 2010 Standard, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Client License for Server and Exchange in their infrastructure. As a result of it, they could optimize

the work flow and productivity, manage database, maintain the records and work efficiently with the latest in technology.

They learned about the BiGTech software donation program. BiG Tech was launched in August 2007, under the NASSCOM Foundation, wherein companies were offered free licensed software. This program was launched in partnership with TechSoup, a US based non-profit organization. WII registered for the program and after the due diligence, they received the software from server to hardware level.

The President of Winrock International India,

Dr KinsukMitra said to Nasscom, “We were in the middle of a crisis when our old server reached its maximum limit and we were faced with the task to upgrade the hardware and software.”

With the help of the new donated New Microsoft Office 2010 software, WII can prepare documents, spread sheets, and presentations in a far better and easier manner that previously, as well as be able to optimize the work flow and productivity. Mitra goes on to add, “This has helped our organization very much in terms of costs as well as providing our employees with new and licensed software which also helps in productivity and work flow. The funds saved are now utilized for other strategic marketing work.”