Test and demo center in Jakarta

QSi Holding Limited has delivered a new version of the Media Management System (MMS) to the test and demo center located in PT. Delphi Utama premises in Cikini, Jakarta, Indonesia.

The Media Management System has primarily been used in the United Arab Emirates for distributing media to The Terminal, QSi Holdings hospitality product, which is installed in over 60 **** and ***** star hotels in the Middle East.

But now a new improved version has been delivered to Indonesia and will after a testing and training period be connected to the DA4RID installation at Jakarta-Kota station.

The Media Management System enables media agents and advertisers to upload their own campaigns (contract, exclusive, time exclusive and remnant campaigns), monitor campaign progress and retrieve statistics from one or more QSi products in Indonesia. The aim of the system is to securely distribute media data and provide continuous access to vital campaign information.

QSi Holding is providing support to Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Indonesia by enabling the distribution of a VSO video advertisement at Jakarta-Kota Station in Indonesia. The aim of the campaign is to promote an ongoing VSO recruitment of five Indonesian professionals. The video advertisement will run throughout August and September at Kota station and reach over 25,000 travelers daily and between 122,000 -136,000 unique individuals monthly.

Below is a press release from VSO International:

PRESS RELEASE

Indonesian experts share their skills with communities in other developing countries

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A pilot project run by VSO Indonesia and the Dirjen Binapenta Departemen Tenaga Kerja dan Transmigrasi Republik Indonesia.

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Indonesia in cooperation with Dirjen Binapenta seek to recruit five (5) Indonesian professionals who will be placed in VSO partner organisations in several developing countries around the world as International Volunteers.

VSO is an international organisation that fights poverty and disadvantage through skilled professionals, who volunteer their time to share their expertise with local organisations and communities in developing countries. VSO is active in more than 40 countries around the world, including Indonesia. In Indonesia since 1968, VSO deploys international volunteer professionals working through partnership with local government institutions or NGOs in NTT and South Sulawesi, on Livelihoods and Disability projects.

For half a century, VSO has been recruiting volunteers aged between 25 and 75 to live and work in the heart of local communities. Currently, VSO has recruitment centres in the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, India, Kenya and the Philippines.

In 2009, VSO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dirjen Binapenta. According to the MOU, VSO will manage a pilot project sending Indonesian volunteer professionals overseas. The project will be evaluated at the end of the Indonesian volunteer’s 2-year term.

We believe that Indonesian professionals are able to take up this important role of making changes for a better world, through sharing their knowledge, talents, experience and skills with local organisations and communities in other developing countries.

The recruitment criteria, the terms and conditions and mechanism would be equal to those of other countries. This pilot project would be managed by VSO Indonesia and VSO Bahaginan from the Philippines, that manages the closest recruitment centre in Asia.

VSO believes that volunteers should neither lose money nor make a profit from volunteering. The package of benefits received by volunteers is designed with this in mind.

This pilot project commences in August 2010. The recruitment process will consist of application and selection between September and October 2010. The deadline for submitting application forms is 3 September 2010. It is expected that the five Indonesian volunteer professionals will start their overseas postings between November 2010 and March 2011, depending on them being matched with available placements in VSO partner organisations in other developing countries.

Next to the valuable contributions volunteers are making during their placements, volunteers say they return to their own country equipped with invaluable professional experience, a wealth of memories, and a whole new perspective on life. It is clear that it would be a great contribution to the development of Indonesia and its skilled workforce, if Indonesians volunteered their time and skills as VSO volunteers.

VSO is distributing information about this pilot project through mailing lists, internet job sites, as well as a video advertisement at the Kota train station in Jakarta. This video advertisement has been made possible through our collaboration with QSi Holding Limited and their representative in Indonesia, PT Delphi Utama.

Susita Handayani / Lucy Gunawan

email Indonesia.volunteering@vsoint.org

or call 0852 3700 2588  Tuesday to Friday

at 10.00-12.00 WITA or 15.00-17.00 WITA

The Indonesian state enterprise and train operator PT. Kereta Api has written a completion certificate for the successful installation of DA4RID (Digital Advertising For Railway Information Displays) at Jakarta-Kota Station close to Batavia in Jakarta, Indonesia. DA4RID is a Railway Information Display System that provides train information and a media service side-by-side, to travelers generating a “need based media” concept.

On the 10th of May, QSi completed the upgrade of the Digital Advertising For Railway Information Display (DA4RID) version 2.1. at Jakarta Kota Station close to Batavia.

The new upgrade includes presentation of the time schedules for the KRL commuter trains going in and out of Kota station. It also includes several improvements for increased maintainability, system stability and replacement of the Solid State Drives used in eight of the ten Display Device Controllers (DDC).

The Terminal (TT) was recently praised in media by the hotel industry in U.A.E for it’s value during the Volcano Ash flight disruptions. In an article in HotelierMiddleEast.com, representatives for Rotana and Emirate Palace explained that TT provided their guests valuable information during the disruptions.

Rotana Hotel Management Corporation corporate vice president information technology Samir Abi Frem said:

“We are extremely pleased that we made a corporate decision to have The Terminal TV channel as a standard throughout our hotel chain.”

Hakam Sourani, director of IT and AV at Emirates Palace concurred with Abi Frem.

“It is extremely beneficial to our guests. The Terminal channel kept our guests updated minute by minute with their flight schedules,” he said in the article.

The Terminal is a TV-channel that provides in-room flight information to hotel guests and is currently installed in over 25.000 rooms luxury hotels in the United Arab Emirates. Read the full article from HotelierMiddleEast.com here.

Remco de Boer has stepped down from his post as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for QSi holding Limited and been replaced by the current Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Eugene Tuinstra (depicted on picture above). Remco de Boer has been a highly appreciated and contributing factor to the expansion of QSi and will now pursue new challenges in the banking sector.

Eugene Tuinstra was elected unanimously as new CEO by the QSi holding board of directors at the annual board meeting held in Amsterdam on the 12th of March. He has been CFO, involved primarily in the financial management of QSi holding and it’s subsidiaries and also had a profound involvement in setting up legal contracts with partners and customers.

QSi holding welcomes Eugene Tuinstra to his new role as CEO and wishes Remco de Boer good luck in his new career.