Web solutions for people involved in positive social and environmental change.
What
Boojum designs, builds and maintains websites and applications for good causes.
The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
— Steve Jobs
Here are a few examples of our work
Art Australia
Management Authority
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in Sydney, is Australia’s leading museum dedicated to exhibiting, collecting and interpreting the work of today’s artists, with significant representation of works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. The MCA Collection contains over 4000 works.
Boojum was chosen through a nation-wide competitive tendering process to build this powerful, responsive website, implementing a design developed by MCA staff and the Sydney UX company Pollen.
West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority
The West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority (WGCMA) manages over 17,500 square kilometres of land and water resources, from Warragul, to San Remo, Wilson’s Promontory, Lakes Entrance, and to Mount Howitt, past Licola.
WGCMA works with farmers, landholders and community groups to create healthier catchments, and to mitigate the effects of climate change. Boojum designed and developed their website and e-learning.
No to Violence
No to Violence is the peak body in Australia for men's behaviour change services.
As well as the No to Violence Website and Membership area, Boojum has produced CAM, the Counselling Activity Manager, which supports counsellors in their work with perpetrators of family violence.
Women's Health in the North
Women's Health In the North (WHIN) is a feminist, ethical, inclusive and courageous organisation. The website is an arm of WHIN's activism on behalf of the women of the northern metropolitan area:
- Prevention of violence against women
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Communities affected by genital mutilation
- Gender equity.
Surf Coast Nature Search
https://scnaturesearch.com.au/
This is a community-based project, working with local flora and fauna experts. Boojum built it as a Django app.
Its aim is to encourage people to make choices that support indigenous flora and fauna. People can search to identify plants and animals that they see, or identify what is a weed, and which plants are appropriate for gardens adjoining native habitat areas.
University of Melbourne - Driving to Health
The University of Melbourne’s School of Medicine wanted to implement a mental health intervention for taxi drivers. In consultation with the University's researchers and health experts, Boojum designed, usability tested, built and deployed the web application "Driving to Health".
As well as offering demonstrations of healthy activities that drivers can do inside and out of the taxi, Driving to Health offers a mental health check-up, and avenues for drivers to seek help.
Northern Integrated Family Violence Services
In the 12 months from 1st July 2017 to 30th June 2018, Victoria Police attended 76,124 family violence incidents.
- See the Crime Statistics Agency website.
Northern Integrated Family Violence Services (NIFVS) is the partnership that leads the integration of family violence and related services in Melbourne’s northern metropolitan region (NMR). The aim of integration is to ensure all parts of the family violence service system work together in order to improve the safety of women and children and to hold perpetrators accountable for their use of violence.
The NIFVS website is an information hub for family violence workers in the region. It contains family violence service, referral pathway, policy, research, events and training information, as well as latest news from the sector.
Vic Catchments
Victoria's Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs) do essential work protecting our waterways, and balancing community use of waterways with the health and sustainability of the environment. This work is all the more important as the effects of climate change create additional stresses on our natural resources, and our communities who depend on them.
Vic Catchments' website showcases the work CMAs are doing across Victoria to protect and improve our catchments, and to mitigate the effects of climate change. A critical element of this is in bringing the community along, so people understand that our water resources are limited, and that we must cooperate in their protection.
The website was developed in WordPress.
Glenelg Hopkins CMA
Glenelg Hopkins CMA (GHCMA) wanted a website that presented them in the spirit in which they work: friendly, professional, and community-minded. GHCMA is the caretaker of river health in the Glenelg Hopkins region. It facilitates and carries out works to protect and enhance the quality of water and the condition of rivers.
The website was developed in WordPress.
The website needed:
- to be modern, responsive, appealing and AA accessible
- a new CMS that enabled multiple authors to author the website easily and securely
- an on-going efficient and affordable Service Agreement.
John Mawurndjul
https://www.johnmawurndjul.com
The old ways of doing things have changed into the new ways. The new generation does things differently. But me, I have two ways. I am the old and the new.
– John Mawurndjul
John Mawurndjul AM is celebrated for his mastery of rarrk (fine-painted cross-hatching), a tradition shared by generations of Kuninjku artists. This exhibition of bark paintings and sculptures, by one of Australia’s most groundbreaking contemporary artists, tells the stories of Kuninjku culture and the significant locations surrounding the artist’s home in western Arnhem Land.
We had the honour of constructing the exhibition website, and the thrill of attending the exhibition. These works express the relationship of love, reverence, and awe that indigenous people have with the land. Across Australia, we need to stop thinking of land as something to "exploit", and listen to the First Nation's elders who can teach us love, reverence and awe.
Diabetes Out West
Diabetes affects more than 1.2 million people nationally, and the western suburbs of Melbourne have a higher incidence of diabetes than the national average. For this reason, the Health West Partnership wished to create a simple, friendly website to inform people of the nature of diabetes and the availability of help services.
The site uses hand drawn illustrations to give the site an approachable, personal feel, and also offers a full Vietnamese version.
Serpell Primary School
Serpell Primary School is a dynamic, thriving learning community made up of a diversity of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. To support this multi-cultural demographic, the website offers many languages.
The development of confident and capable learners in the primary school years sets a person up for life. We are proud to have provided Serpell's online presence for more than ten years.
Yellingbo Conservation Area
About us
Roland
Design lead and co-founder.
Jason
Technical lead and co-founder.
We get the bulk of our work by word-of-mouth, and that’s great from our point of view. Instead of coming in on a bow-wave of glossy marketing, we can sit down with you and chat as colleagues about what you want to achieve, and how to go about it.
We see information technology as part of the ecology of success. It must be built with a real understanding of your organisation, your relationships, your aims, your means, and your strengths and weaknesses. Info Tech is powerful, but it isn’t magical. Your success grows out of a mixture of vision and realism.
At a practical level, this is the kind of stuff we do:
Analysis and UX design
- A creative and holistic approach to requirements analysis and design.
- Process design, content design, e-learning design.
- Requirements analysis, prototyping and usability testing.
Website and application development
- Specialist skills in REACT, Python and Django.
- HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Accessibility and online security.
Support and maintenance
- We back what we build, and form long term relationships with our clients.
Why
We wanted to turn fixing the planet into our day job, instead of something we did on weekends.
Compassion is not something you feel. It is something you do.
— Chögyam Trungpa, Buddhist meditations master
Before we do a project, we ask:
- Do we believe in the outcomes and values of the project, and the organisation commissioning it?
- Are we the right people to do it?
How do we define positive social and environmental change?
Positive social change means:
- achieving real gender equity
- justice for Australia's First Nations
- more access to better education
- improving the quality of communities and the conversations between communities
- less consumption and materialism
- more meaning and imagination.
Positive environmental change means:
- real action on climate change, and giving back space and opportunity to other species
- valuing and defending natural habitat and biodiversity for their own sake
- better coexistence between humans and other species.
Contact
Have an online project in mind, or an IT problem to solve? Contact Boojum 1300 583 379.
We normally reply within two business days.
Boojum Pty Ltd is based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
We also have an office in New South Wales, Australia.
Who
Want to know more about Boojum, and who you will be working with? Read on.
Boojum Pty Ltd was established in 2003 to help organisations involved in positive social and environmental change become more successful.
Our websites, database applications, and e-learning designs improve organisations' abilities to manage, promote and grow their activities.
As well as solving complex problems with human-centred designs, we pride ourselves on doing happy projects.
Our Colleagues
We are deeply grateful to our colleagues, whose skills make Boojum's work possible.
Suzie
Content designer, informed by years teaching English as a Second Language, designing e-learning, and kind sense of humour.
Harry
Interface wizard with a strong design ethic, and a specialist interest in security.
Tamsin
Visual designer, always on the move with either a paintbrush, cordless drill, crochet hook or computer tablet.
Roland
Design lead and co-founder.
Jason
Technical lead and co-founder.
We worked in the corporate sector over many years on challenging, major projects for organisations like the Victorian Government, ANZ, the City of Melbourne, and Telstra. We felt a mounting anxiety about environmental destruction and climate change, and issues of social justice, like gender equity, wealth distribution, and family violence. So we founded Boojum.
And here we are, eighteen years later! We are proud of the causes we work for, and these have been the happiest years of our working lives.
First Nations
We support the Uluru Statement From The Heart.
Uluru Statement From The Heart
We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart:
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs.
This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years ago.
This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.
How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.
These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.
We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution. Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.
We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.
In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.
— The Referendum Council, Final Report 30 June 2017
The rain it raineth every day
Upon the just and unjust fella,
But more upon the just because
The unjust has the just's umbrella.
19th century ditty
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Images Attribution
Robot image, Frog and butterfly image:
- Copyright Pexels on a Creative Commons License
- Source: https://www.pexels.com
Boy and girl with balloons:
- Le Ballon Rouge, film, 1956, by Albert Lamorisse
First Nation's Flag:
- Designed by Harold Thomas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_Flag
- Tamsin revised this rounded version of the flag for our website.
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