Terms of Reference – ToR New Social Initiative \u2013 NSI seeks to engage Kosovo-based Web Development or IT experts (Company or Individual) to develop the Web portal and Mobile phone application for both iOS and Android (mobile phone operating systems) that will enhance the reach of media reporting on the Serbian language in Kosovo and increase citizen access to information and news. The web portal and mobile phone applications will be equipped with special features that link with the news portals of independent media reporting in Serbian in Kosovo and allow users to navigate and access all news generated from these web portals in one place in real-time. The special significance of platform is that it will provide a quick and easy insight into how different media report on the same topics. The platform will display only the title, source, and summary of the news on its website, while the links direct visitors to the source’s website allowing users to read the entire article at the source, thus generating an audience for those who have created the news. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To enable quicker and more comprehensive access to the media, reporting in Serbian language in Kosovo, to the media outlets and agencies in Pristina, Belgrade, and to the local readership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Primary objective of the assignment is to develop a media platform (web portal and mobile phone application for iOS and Android) that will gather headlines and links to the original web pages from the selected media outlets reporting in the Serbian language in Kosovo. In addition to allowing citizens and media agencies to access news from the media reporting in the Serbian language in Kosovo in one place, this platform will sort the news by category. Platform will display only the title, source, and summary of the news on its pages, while the links will direct the visitors to the source itself (to the website of the local media that produced the news), where they can read the article in its entirety. Also, the platform will have a filter featuring the original source with an available list of other media that have picked up the news. This will provide better information access and increase the reach of these media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Contractor should design, develop, maintain, and update a website and a mobile application, using the information and inputs received from the project team and media featured on the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The main responsibilities of the contractor are: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The NSI project team will provide all the information related to this activity that is necessary for a contractor in the development of the website and mobile application. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Experience and knowledge: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Professionalism: <\/p>\n\n\n\n NSI invites interested individuals or companies, to submit the following documents listed below by September 09 (Friday), 2022: <\/p>\n\n\n\n The selected contractor will be responsible for designing and executing all assigments described in this TOR in collaboration with the project team. The selection process will be based on the set of criteria developed by the NSI Evaluation Committee to evaluate the proposals. The Evaluation Committee will evaluate the proposals by using the combined scoring method. Technical proposals will be evaluated on 70% whereas financial proposals will be evaluated on 30%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n New Social Initiative<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Web and Mobile Application Development Services Terms of Reference – ToR Web and Mobile Application Development Services Type of contract: Service Contract (SC) or Special Service Agreement (SSA) Duration of engagement: 6 months Background New Social Initiative \u2013 NSI seeks to engage Kosovo-based Web Development or IT…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28983,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-29483","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29484,"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29483\/revisions\/29484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsocialinitiative.org\/sq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Web and Mobile Application Development Services
Type of contract: <\/strong>Service Contract (SC) or Special Service Agreement (SSA)
Duration of engagement: <\/strong>6 months <\/p>\n\n\n\nBackground <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Overall Objective of the Assignment <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Purpose of the Assignment <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Duties and Responsibilities <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Expected specific assignment: <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Competencies <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Deadline and submission of expression of interest <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Evaluation and Selection Process <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u010cika Jovina V\/117,
North Mitrovica
+381 28 497180 <\/a>
office@newsocialinitiative.org <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n