Technology Magazine July 2022 | Page 260

“ I ' m getting people from different backgrounds , getting people from different areas , getting people joining our ranks with different ideas , and that really helps you build bigger , better and stronger teams . That , in turn , is what endows the organisation with vision , which is what it needs if it is to be successful ”

CRIS DOWNEY DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICES , ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
work . We provide grants , funding , travel and access so that participants can do the work , in order to make the world a better place .
“ We are really here as part of Rotary to support those people of action , to achieve that work throughout the globe across our seven different areas of focus , which are :
Peace Building ; Disease Prevention ; Water and Sanitation ; Maternal and Child Health ; Education and Literacy ; Community and Economic Development ; and Protecting the Environment .”
Rotary ' s digital transformation and partnership with Mindsight The work that Cris Downey performed for the first couple of years at Rotary was concerned with what he describes as “ shoring up the foundation of Rotary Technology as a whole ”.
At the time , Rotary had a lot of outdated systems , and to be able to solve this problem , they worked with ‘ Mindsight ’, who was one of their key partners in helping them to modernise some of those legacy
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