In this blog post I will tell you my internship story on my favourite memory from that time, which was the making of ‘Our World’ Experience. But first I will make a quick introduction on my internship host organisation and my position there.
This past semester I was interning at a non-governmental organisation called Justdiggit. This company’s goal is to regreen Africa and bring awareness to climate change and to take action. When it comes to regreening they mean to bring back vegetation by making now dry landscapes green again. They are doing it by implementing several regreening techniques. As I mentioned before, Justdiggit values their recognition and awareness, which they are getting most of the times from advertisements, which are visible in the media or out of home billboards. As I was also responsible for the infomail box of the company, I got to read many e-mails of potential partners that are interested in the company, just because they saw a Justdiggit billboard. It is important for this organization to get as many partners as they can because as I mentioned before it is a non-governmental organisation, so all of the advertisements are pro bono. So, it important for Justdiggit to ‘catch’ those partners and work together for the better and greener planet.
Justdiggit developed this idea to motivate companies to work with them, calling it ‘Our World’ Experience. All the regreening work is happening in Africa, especially in Kenya and Tanzania, so the potential business partners were having trouble in connecting to the company, just because their work is happening in the other continent. So, ‘Our World’ Experience, as a name states, aims to bring the regreeing world in a digital form. During that experience people can explore the project areas in an interactive documentary that allows you to move around in 360 degrees. Pretty cool!
I can say that creating ‘Our World’ was one of my favourite parts of the internship. My supervisor gave me a free hand for choosing right pictures and videos that would be visible during the experience, I was also responsible for putting the content, so the pictures and the copy, into the system. I could dive deeper and observe all the behind the scenes. I got to know many more amazing people while working on this project and also have a great fun! Of course there was some days that the system broke down and all the work had to be redone but overall I had an amazing time.
I can say that I have learnt a lot during this internship, from acquiring new creative and communication skills to expanding my professional network. I feel like I grew a lot, in terms of skills and also as a person. I am so happy that I could be the part of Justdiggit team!
If you want to look at the ‘Our World’ Experience yourself here’s the link: https://ourworld.justdiggit.org/en/
Enjoy and explore!!!
Best,
Zuzia Gołąbiecka
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