May 19, 2013 - LINDEN, Guyana -- The Guyana Jazz Festival Foundation Inc (a non profit), today announced it has launched a major initiative to develop an online presence for the Linden Town week.
The Initiative will establish a dynamic website, social media applications, event planning platform, ticket sales capability, donation capability, and live event streaming to a worldwide audience via the internet. In addition, the initiative will develop an event management plan and standard operating procedures. These improvements will assist the event organizers, promoters, and attendees to improve planning and quickly share and access information about this event in a manner of their choosing.
"The Guyana Jazz Festival Foundation is committed to bringing world class planning expertise and tools, utilizing the power of technology, to all stakeholders" says Robert Millington, company CEO. "By adding an online presence to this event, we've made it extremely easy for local and overseas based Guyanese to better access information which will increase attendance."
Millington was born and spent his formative years in the mining town, before emigrating to the United States, where he served as an officer in The United States Navy for over 20 years.
Some of the benefits that will be realized by all lindeners include the ability for residents to list and rent their home or individual rooms in their home, to overseas and out of town attendees. In addition, stakeholders traditionally left out of the event can begin coming back. Mature Guyanese and children's activities, will play an increasingly larger role in the event.
The Foundation retained the services of its sister company, Dome Group Inc, an information technology and administrative consulting company, to bring this initiative to completion. Work Commenced on the initiative in the days immediately following the conclusion of the 2013 Linden Town Week on 6 May 2013 and is expected to be completed by 31 May 2013.
When completed the following will be made available to the Linden Interim Management Committee (IMC), and the Linden Cultural Development Committee.