(ATR) Special Olympics International is entering the 21st century with Microsoft technology.
21 Marketing founder and CEO Rob Prazmark told Around the Rings the impact of the latest deal between Special Olympics International and Microsoft will completely revolutionize the movement.
"We’ve been involved in some massive deals for the IOC and FIFA, worth some hundreds of millions of dollars," Prazmark told ATR in an interview.
"The impact that Microsoft will have on Special Olympics for decades to come far surpasses any of them in my estimation."
ATR has learned the three-year deal is worth in the "eight-figure" range and will provide Special Olympics International with newly-designed Microsoft cloud technology. The technology will be used to provide real time medical and record keeping data for the entire organization and its roughly 170 member countries.
Microsoft will first implement the technology at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles, and then the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Styria, Austria.
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New Sponsors, Staff Additions for PyeongChang 2018
The organizing committee for the 2018 Olympics appears revitalized under its new chairman.
On Friday, Samil - the South Korean arm of professional services giant PwC - was announced as the accounting services supplier for the 2018 Olympics.
This will be only the third sponsor for POCOG. The organizing committee signed its first two sponsors this summer, nearly three years after winning the right to stage the Games. Typically, organizing committees have a large roster of sponsors at this stage of their preparations.
Games volunteers will receive online language training from Pagoda Education Group.
Courses in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and Korean will be offered for the 30,000 expected volunteers to aid in training for the 2018 Olympics.
The courses will be on and off-line, consisting of lectures, evaluations, as well as group lessons.
"Pagoda will provide optimized language training services to add value and make PyeongChang 2018 the most successful Games," Kyung-sil Park, Pagoda Education Group Chairperson, said in a statement.
"The Pyeongchang2018 Winter Olympic Games will have Pagoda’s wholehearted support."
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Written by Aaron Bauer and Ed Hula III
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