Peace One Day
Overview
For the last 20+ years, Peace One Day has been campaigning to institutionalise the 21st of September every year as an international day of peace, to call for ceasefire and non-violence in the homes, schools, workplaces, communities and in areas of conflict.
Our mission was to rebuild and host the new website and build a community based around the website, allowing people to learn about Peace Day, to commit to it every day and to connect with like-minded peace-makers around the world.
Peace One is hosting additional events this year starting with a day celebrating non-discrimination and inclusion on 21 March 2021.
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Developers
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UX / UI Designer
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Marketing Specialist
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Development Months
The challenge
Due to the large number of people who interacted with the Peace One Day website in the past, especially on the lead-up to Peace Day, the first priority for the new platform is scalability. The goal is to grow awareness of Peace Day, to have more visitors and registrations, which would mean that the website would have to sustain increasingly heavier loads over time.
In order to attract said visitors, the website needed a thorough redesign - something vibrant, attention-grabbing yet easy to understand and navigate. It should promote interactivity and be engaging.
The new website would also require an easy way for Jeremy Gilley, founder of Peace One Day, to add content such as news and features onto the site directly.
The solution
A fully custom front-end website built on OutSystems Reactive to transform Peace One Day’s digital image with a new and radical design, UX and UI.
The application is driven by a custom back-end CMS (integrated with Amazon and SalesForce) and Green Lemon Company’s very own PageBuilder®, which allows Peace One Day to create and manage their content dynamically (e.g. create/edit pages, resources or imagery).
Green Lemon Company’s scrum team delivered seamlessly over a complete 20-week agile project to bring the release in on time and budget before the major event – Peace Day on the 21st of September.
The nature of this project allowed us to reach out and receive support from several partners and companies, without whom this project would not be possible. All of these partners have provided their services for this project free of charge.
Used to manage and push out messages to registered users.
Used to provide detailed information and analytics of website use by visitors.
Provided highly scalable hosting services.
Provided a full rebrand of Peace One Day along with colour schemes and a proprietary font, and liaised with us weekly on the website redesign.
Provided a full OutSystems platform license for Peace One Day.
The results
Since the launch of the application, on top of its daily engagement, Peace One Day has used it to host several successful Live events and other major campaigns.
Green Lemon Company has agreed to continuously provides pro-bono support to Peace One Day and the further development and evolution of their OutSystems Platform.
This website has allowed people to learn about Peace Day, to commit to it every day and to connect with like-minded peacemakers around the world.
“Without peace, we cannot face the challenges of population, food security, literacy, ending poverty, global warming and so on.
Without peace we can’t reach the vital but ambitious goals of the UN SDG initiative and without peace we cannot stop domestic and workplace violence.
Peace unites and gives us, the human community, a chance to make the world a better place for us all.”
— Matt Thompsett, CEO
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