I and Ramesh would talk for hours every week and plan out the new site. We wanted the new site to give complete privacy to the donors , we also wanted that the database should not be misued by unscrupolour elements. Ramesh put in a lot of effort to come up with the new site. Our new site was ready and we migrated to the new system on 11th of November 2005 midnight. We send out mailers to our 28500 donors asking them to migrate to the new system. We had almost scrapped the old site . We wanted the old donors to migrate to the new site. We did not know if the donors would take it well. We were in for a pleasant surprise , about 1000+ donors migrated to the new system by next day mornng. We were sure that our new system would work quite well.. But new challenges lay ahead....
The new site gave donors complete privacy. Database was not open where unscruplous elements could take a printout and misuse the information. The donor also had the choice of the Hospital/Blood Bank he wished to donte blood, preferably at a place which is close to his place of residence or work. The request for blood donation were routed through us. We would take the request, authenticate it and then send the SMS alerts to the Donors. We would send the request in the ratio of 1:3 meaning for every unit of blood needed we would send out 3 SMS alerts to the donors.
The new site gave donors complete privacy. Database was not open where unscruplous elements could take a printout and misuse the information. The donor also had the choice of the Hospital/Blood Bank he wished to donte blood, preferably at a place which is close to his place of residence or work. The request for blood donation were routed through us. We would take the request, authenticate it and then send the SMS alerts to the Donors. We would send the request in the ratio of 1:3 meaning for every unit of blood needed we would send out 3 SMS alerts to the donors.
