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Software Maker Doing its Part to Preserve History

Czech software company Kentico provides website platform, helps fund “The World Remembers,” online memorial to fallen WWI soldiers.

Kentico is a local software company, based here in Brno, which is focused on web content management, digital marketing, and customer experience management. It’s also a company that takes social responsibility very seriously. It’s the latter that led Kentico to help fund the efforts of a non-profit organization called The World Remembers (www.theworldremembers.org). That organization has embarked on a mission to create an online memorial to Australian, Canadian, and European soldiers who lost their lives in World War I. And now, thanks to Kentico’s help, the site will include the details of soldiers who served from the Czech Republic, where Kentico is headquartered. 

The World Remembers database and website, created by a Canadian non-profit organization, was officially launched last November. The database will ultimately contain the names of more than 300,000 soldiers from Australia, Canada, India, UK, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Turkey, and France who fell during WWI. The project is being completed in phases: names from 1914 are online now; names from 1915 will be completed before the end of this year; and over the next three years, the organization will focus on entering the names of fallen veterans from 1916-1918. 

“We really appreciate the interest that Kentico has taken in the project. Both The World Remembers and Kentico have an international outlook and Kentico's 2015 support for the inclusion of the names of the Czech soldiers killed in WWI helps us build the project internationally. Needless to say, the Kentico tool for managing content on The World Remembers site is magnificent. We look forward to a great relationship with them throughout the WWI Centenary years," states Robert Thomson, producer for The World Remembers. 

 “This is a meaningful endeavor, to preserve this information for future generations,” adds Petr Palas, founder and CEO of Kentico Software. “We are delighted that we could support such a worthy cause and help to preserve the memory of Czech and other soldiers who fought and died in the war.”