 A passion for IT development and a desire to provide meaningful service to the community unite us at CVWO. We are a diverse group of undergraduates from the National University of Singapore under the supervision of School of Computing Assistant Professor Dr Ben Leong.
CVWO is now in it's second year, following two successful partnerships with the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled in Singapore (MINDS) and the Geyland East Home for the Aged (GEHA).
Many Voluntary Welfare Organizations (VWOs) in Singapore can benefit from the computerization of processes which are repetitive or administrative in nature. Selective computerization allows social workers to spend more of their time on the tasks that directly influence their beneficiaries. However, the cost of competent IT development is prohibitive and few VWOs have the financial capacity to justify expenditure on IT systems instead of on items related to their core businesses.
Since manpower contributes to most of the cost in IT development, CVWO is a platform that matches the computer programming skills of volunteer undergraduates to the needs of selected partner VWOs. Through taking direct responsibility for the whole process of building an IT system, our programmers are involved in a unique learning opportunity outside the classroom.
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