Categories: From the Office
Dear Friends, This past week, our long-time partner ORTEC received the prestigious ‘Technology for Health’ Award, from the hands of Her Excellency Madam Ngema-Zuma, the First Lady of South Africa, as part of the Global Business Action on Health Awards for the support they’ve shown North Star in developing our electronic health passport system, “COMETS”. [...]
Categories: From the Office, Press Releases
Computerworld announced today that our long-time parter, ORTEC, has been named as a 2013 Honors Laureate in recognition of their work with North Star Alliance.
Categories: Blog Home
Last November we featured the launch of an exciting and innovative pilot project aimed at delivering important health and safety information to 75 truck drivers in South Africa. The pilot, which ran for two months between November and December 2011, reached truck drivers via text messages covering a range of topics with one SMS per day, [...]
Categories: From the Office
North Star is pleased to welcome Qurius to our Alliance of Partners. Qurius is a Netherlands-based technology solutions company that provides design, architecture, infrastructure, deployment and systems management of Microsoft-based business and IT solutions. Qurius has helped North Star roll out an Information Technology Road Map. Phase one outlines upgrades to our office communications software. [...]
Categories: From the Office
North Star is pleased to welcome Cisco Systems, a worldwide leader in the provision of networking, communications and collaborative tools, as the newest member of our growing alliance of more than 70 public, private and social partners. Cisco’s commitment to North Star highlights its relentless support of initiatives that demonstrate concrete impact. At North Star, [...]
Categories: Campaigns and Events
ORTEC and North Star Alliance are participating in the “11partners in 2011” campaign. This campaign, organized by NUzakelijk.nl, recognizes partnerships between Non-Governmental Organizations (such as North Star) and commercial organizations such as ORTEC, one of North Star’s core partners. With this campaign NUzakelijk, Partners4Change and Young Professionals Make the Difference aim to stimulate the cooperation [...]
Categories: Press Releases
“This system enables us to select optimal Roadside Wellness Centres locations” After successfully developing North Star Alliance’s client health registration system, ORTEC has now delivered a new application that will assist North Star in determining optimal clinical locations and number of employees for its network of Roadside Wellness Centres (RWCs). The new solution is developed [...]
Categories: Photo of the Week
Last week, the North Star Alliance – TNT Express Roadshow stopped in the Hague to attend the “TNT Express Convention 2011 – A Global Team, working together”. While TNT has been a core partner of North Star since its inception, this convention was particularly exciting as it saw representatives from every country TNT works in [...]
Categories: Press Releases
The newest partner to join North Star Alliance will ensure quality standardization and sustainability across the Roadside Wellness Centre Network PharmAccess Foundation (PharmAccess) and North Star Alliance (North Star) signed a Memorandum of Understanding, making PharmAccess the sixth core partner of North Star. North Star provides health and safety services to mobile workers and communities [...]
Categories: Events
Last week, North Star Alliance and Art for AIDS International opened a large exhibition in collaboration with the World Food Programme at the Second Annual Global Agri-Knowledge Share Fair in Rome – hosted at the headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a UN agency responsible for combating rural hunger and poverty in developing [...]
