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MyAIDSNexus
Social Network
Based Community
Portal
Social Network Based Community
Portal
Marketing Contacts:
Vineet Dahiya
InfoAxon Technologies Ltd.
Mob - +91-9810425760
Email - [email protected]
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Overview
MyAIDSNexus (http://www.myaidsnexus.org) is a new initiative to enhance the existing AIDSPortal (http://www.aidsportal.org). It
empowers individuals with personal and professional interests in HIV and AIDS community. The MyAIDSNexus solution is all about
empowerment, voice, participation and enhanced outcomes.
MyAIDSNexus reduces complexity in comprehending development AID issues to a manageable form and in a non-patronising way
shows potential users what is out there, and how, in difficult circumstances, they can interact with it/them/each other. It has been
specifically conceived as a way to push back the barriers to access for those in developing countries.
MyAIDSNexus offers a single point of access to a range of useful and practical micro-services. It makes no assumptions about
connectivity, bandwidth, or ownership of certain types of information device.
The focus for MyAIDSNexus platform is that many thousands of individuals will come to appreciate that MyAIDSNexus represents a
convenient way for them to handle all their HIV and AIDS related information flows in a simple but highly efficient manner.
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Business Needs and Challenges
The challenge for the older web initiative AIDSPortal (http://www.aidsportal.org) was that the existing portal provided access to
information based on portal wide information availability, coupled with access rights defined by the user registration functions.
Information was organized in a structured way according to a content framework that was employed. However, the limitations of a
portal approach to accessing information was that it was difficult to maintain, determine access rights to information and
functionality in a diverse and decentralized environment.
The business needs that emerged out of this scenario were to provide following services in a new social networked approach that is
highly decentralized.
A new social platform dedicated for a specific purpose was conceived out of certain business requirements. The basic requirement
was to create a common platform where individuals with personal and professional interests in HIV and AIDS can connect, interact
and create awareness about it.
A further drill down and InfoAxon identified following business needs:
To conceptualize and develop a social networking platform which offered interactive profiles for individuals and groups.
A portal, which has customizable discussion groups including pictures and polls as well.
Functionality to include third-party applications such as job listings, videos, directories.
To provide single point of access to a range of useful and practical micro-services.
A solution, which can help in facilitating access to information given the time and resource constraints facing organizations
responding to HIV and AIDS.
Following challenges were associated with business needs:
Integrating third party applications within the main portal.
Ensuring seamless interaction between the micro-services included within the solution.
Being a global site MyAIDSNexus required being scalable and robust in nature.
Capturing and maintaining information of all the users spread across the globe.
Performance requirements on the solution due to the amount of processes the system is being exposed to.
To meet these business needs and challenges, InfoAxon proposed and designed a highly reliable and resilient solution using latest
open source technologies.
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Social Network Rights Model
The rights model for social network was required in the new solution. It was important to know
What a user can see or do?
How information is organized?
How users can be contacted?
How this can be defined by the social network user rights model?
All information is presented and accessed through this model.
Micro Services
Micro services were to be established as the universal containers of information and functionalities. This approach was needed to
modularize all information and functionalities, and therefore facilitate the ability of users to find information and functionality, and
to subscribe to or publish to those sources.
Part of a Global Initiative
MyAIDSNexus is a part of global initiative that aims to
facilitate greater knowledge sharing and networking among
organizations involved in the response to HIV and AIDS.
It focuses on developing or adopting simple tools that can
support country led networking and knowledge sharing.
MyAIDSNexus primarily works in partnership with networks
and seeks to strengthen their ability to support the response
to the AIDS epidemic.
MyAIDSNexus was developed by InfoAxon after a series of
interactions with certain end-users and critical stakeholders
involved in the project.
InfoAxon conceptualized the solution/portal with an intention
to represent a convenient way for many thousands of
individuals to handle all their HIV and AIDS related
information flows in a simple but highly efficient manner.
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Platform Approach
A platform approach was needed for the presentation and access to micro-services utilizing multiple channels of access, and based
on the access and ability of a user to find, subscribe to or publish information.
Within this framework, all information, data, and functionalities are presented through micro-services.
Examples are:
Record personal details.
Record organizational details.
Upload a list of documents.
Maintain a list of links to documents of interest.
Maintain a blog.
Maintain a news feed.
Link to a news feed from a particular source.
The solution effectively met the following principle objectives for the MyAIDSNexus portal:
Focus on networking.
More open policy dialogue.
Country-led management.
Focus on networks.
Easy and quick access to information.
Why InfoAxon?
InfoAxon was chosen for several reasons to implement the MyAIDSNexus solution:
Our 8 year track record underlines the fact, that when it comes to helping with business solutions for a collaborative
environment, then InfoAxon leads the way.
Use of existing pre-packaged knowledge management platform technologies that are available as readymade white
label platform that enabled rapid implementation of the workflows and knowledge management environment to achieve
MyAIDSNexus objectives.
Local partnering with Kwantu IT in South Africa as part of a consortium to deliver the solution. Kwantu IT and
InfoAxon collaborated where InfoAxon provided the technical solution to make this solution a reality.
Expertise in Open source integration to creative innovative solutions to similar problems by leveraging the power of
open source, enterprise social network communities, and knowledge management practices.
Ability to put together a multi-disciplined development team comprising of development experts and technology gurus.
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How InfoAxon achieved it? InfoAxon implemented the project as part of a consortium and in close
partnership with Kwantu IT. Kwantu IT brought the domain business
knowledge expertise of the development sector.
InfoAxon already had a mix of technology and business skills to
leverage the knowledge management platform and deliver the
solution.
White Label Knowledge Management
Platform for Community Development
InfoAxon used its white label flagship Knowledge Management platform to implement the MyAIDSNexus solution.
The white label platform provides out of box features such as:
Social Networking application.
Knowledge Community Spaces.
Content Management.
MyAIDSNexus solution was configured on this white label platform to deliver
features like adding an application, tracking of grants, creating and managing
user groups etc. These all features led to smooth functioning and management
of MyAIDSNexus portal.
Third Party Applications
MyAIDSNexus enables an individual to interact with and use certain third-party
applications as well. The portal leverages the benefits of specialized third party
applications like YouTube, Flickr etc.
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Complete User Control Over the Profile
The users of MyAIDSNexus have better control over their profiles on the portal. They can modify their profile, add third party
applications (As allowed by the system), change the layout, and so on. The system offers better flexibility of using several basic
functionalities as and when required.
In-built Search Functionality
MyAIDSNexus portal comes with an in-built search functionality, which
supports users to search for any relevant data within the context of the
solution. The search functionality also provides users with filtering options such as:
All
By Type
People
Groups
Organizations
Applications
This all helped users in getting better and more categorized search
results.
Complete Collaboration with the
Network
MyAIDSNexus helps a user to stay in touch with other users existing
within their network. The portal also allows users to search for and
connect with people who are not part of their network. The solution
provides users with flexibility to view people in different order like
alphabetical (A-Z), Newest, and Popular.
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Third Party Application Interaction
The proposed solution also interacts with third party applications like YouTube,
Flickr etc. The basic intention of enabling the use of third party applications was
to increase solution‟s flexibility to handle ever growing users‟ expectations. With
major thrust on networking, it was important to have applications, which
increase user‟s capability to harness power of social networking.
Technology Stack
The table below lists the components of technology stack used for developing the solution.
OSS Components Details
Presentation LifeRay, ZK, XForm, XSLT, JSP
Middle Level JBoss, RestEasy, XQuery
Backend DaoLayer/XQuery, JDBC
Database MySQL, Exist
Content Syndication XML, ATOM
Application Server JBoss
Operating System CentOS
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What InfoAxon delivered?
With its expertise in using open source frameworks and stacks, InfoAxon added immense value to the EPWP implementation by
designing a solution that was:
Robust and Scalable: The solution built on proven open source frameworks and components, was highly configurable,
scalable and robust in nature, thus enabling the end user to customize and configure the complete solution as per its
requirement.
Easy on Maintenance: The complete application was built in a way that it involved minimum layers of development hence
making the solution easy to maintain.
Economical and cost efficient: Use of already existing frameworks and integrating them with InfoAxon‟s own open source
stack helped in reducing the development cost of the complete solution.
Delivered rapidly and timely: Experience in open source integration helped in ensuring a quick and efficient delivery of the
solution.
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About InfoAxon Technologies
InfoAxon is a leading provider of enterprise services and business
solutions powered by open source. We design, architect and support
complete “Enterprise Solution Platforms” using Open Standards, Web 2.0
next generation technologies and Open Source Frameworks providing
end-to-end solutions to business problems.
India‟s First Global Open Source Integration Company
We are India's First Global Open Source Integration Company providing business solutions in areas of Content & Knowledge Management,
Web2.0 Collaboration and Business Intelligence powered by our
unique open source „Platforming‟ expertise.
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