UNEP-WCMC

Project domain

NGO

greentech

United Nations Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) aspires to promote the values of biodiversity both in the public and the private sector as a crucial factor for human well-being and the global green economy. It achieves that by providing authoritative information about ecosystems and biodiversity to decision- and policy-makers.

See live: http://www.unep-wcmc.org//

Goals

Provide UNEP-WCMC staff with better and more flexible CMS to manage data sources and information on the website
Improve the impact of the available data on decision-makers through enhancing it with spatial capabilities and maps
Increase availability of biodiversity sources through improvements in the website’s user experience

Scope of work

front-end development

back-end development

project management

Technologies

Ruby on Rails

AngularJS

Collaboration time:

8 months

Team size:

Flow of work

Researching and spiking available CMS solutions to find the best option to satisfy specific requirements

Incremental development of CMS capabilities and integration with the existing website

Migrating the data from the old database and seamless launch of the new solution

Prototyping the new map capabilities with various options to choose the most suitable solution

Enhancing the site with spatial- and map-related features