Mission driven
success stories

The World Bank works in 189 member countries through more than 130 offices worldwide to reduce poverty and improve living standards. Through finance, analytical work and advisory services, teams design and implement projects across every region and sector. In fiscal year 2025, the Bank Group provided more than $118.5 billion in development support. To enable this complex global work, the World Bank built a network of communities of practice powered by Open Social. These communities connect people, expertise and lessons learned so teams can work faster, avoid repeated mistakes and improve project quality.

UNDP works with over 190 governments and maintains offices in more than 170 countries and territories. With around 23.000 personnel and thousands of active projects, UNDP advances development across climate, governance, gender equality, health, crisis response and resilience. To coordinate this global mandate, UNDP launched SparkBlue, the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) flagship digital platform for online engagement and collaboration. This innovative platform, SparkBlue, enables users to actively contribute to the Global Development Agenda by providing expert insights, sharing knowledge, and participating in high-level discussions that shape global policy.

Europa Communities Platform SaaS (ECP SaaS) is a tailored solution, developed by Open Social, specifically designed for the European Commission (EC). This platform provides a unified codebase for multiple community websites across the EC’s infrastructure, offering a scalable and secure foundation for managing online communities. It is hosted on EC’s infrastructure, ensuring compliance with the EC’s security and privacy standards, and is structured as a modular solution that allows seamless updates across all instances.