Welcome Dale Gedge who joins the Gifted Equines Team after 30 Years service with World Horse Welfare as Head of IT
We're delighted to welcome Dale Gedge as an official partner.
Dale's experience and expertise will help to ensure that Gifted continues to provide and improve upon our intelligent, user-friendly solutions to the needs of the animal welfare sector. (He doesn't half talk a lot, though... 😉)
After 30 years as Head of IT at World Horse Welfare, I recently moved on to pastures new, with mixed emotions. World Horse Welfare was my second home for over three decades, and I will always hold its people and mission very close to my heart.
I’m very proud to have been a part of the journey from 1993 (before the internet, email, and PCs) to where the charity is today; with new technologies come new opportunities.
Changing course from World Horse Welfare is definitely tinged with sadness, but I am excited to pursue the goal of providing helpful, practical, cutting-edge technology to the wider welfare sector through my new partnership with @Gifted Equines.
Gifted Equines
I was involved in the development of Gifted Equines from the beginning. Having worked on-site and across all four World Horse Welfare farms over my time, I could see all the fantastic things people were doing. But I could also see the limitations of the technology available to them. There was difficulty recording and reporting on data consistently, duplication of effort, cabinets of paper, and folders of spreadsheets sprawling across offices and computers.
I wanted to free farms, field officers, grooms and support staff from those physical limitations. The solution had to be a cloud system that was available to anyone with a browser. We needed data entry to shift from being an extra chore to being something that provided clear benefits and insights on the go. Giving users immediate access to dashboards that showed them their tasks and horses was essential and allowed them to update and view data instantly.
Expanding the breadth and depth of data collection was important, but we didn’t want just to get better data for data’s sake. Equine professionals involved in a horse's journey previously relied on reams of paper to remind them of past appointments and afflictions. They can now access appointments, medical history and anything else they need through their own login portals. Intelligent reporting capabilities provide instant insights to users, managers and equine professionals.
The benefits of an accessible, user-friendly, cloud-based solution have implications beyond individual farms and organisations. A solution for the digital ID of equines and other animals is now tangible and available. A robust digital identity is crucial for traceability, control of the food chain, and biosecurity.
Our main aim with Gifted Equines was to address inefficiencies in the equine welfare sector by providing access to cutting-edge technological resources. The potential to expand Gifted Equines to other sectors and animals is vast, and we plan to realise that potential fully. The ultimate goal is to provide a system that allows people across the board to get better data, deeper insights, and to do more good for their animals.
Note the Nokia 3210 pictured there in front of me, happy memories.
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