SANGONeT is a South African organisation, whose acronym stands for The Southern African
NGO
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...
Network.
It is a civil society organisation with a focus on
ICT, which was founded in 1987, and has a history closely linked to the social and political changes experienced by South Africa during its transition to democracy.
In 2006, SANGONeT launched a new joint venture, called www.sangotech.org whose aim is to "meet and respond to the South African NGO sector's connectivity, hardware and e-business infrastructure * requirements."
Central Case Management System
The Central Case Management System (CCMS) is an
open source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open ...
that was developed by SANGONeT for the
paralegal sector in
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. Designed to allow multiple organisations and paralegal offices to access, input and modify a central
database
In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases s ...
of case records, the CCMS is a web-based
thin-client
In computer networking, a thin client is a simple (low-performance) computer that has been optimized for establishing a remote connection with a server-based computing environment. They are sometimes known as ''network computers'', or in th ...
application that eliminates the need to install and maintain
software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
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at each office.
External links
NGO Pulse Website
Organizations established in 1987
Information technology organisations based in South Africa
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