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- New Solution Gives Swedish Municipality a Way to Increase Security, Save Money
- Horby Kommun is a municipality in southern Sweden. The municipality's IT services department manages an infrastructure based on the Windows Server 2003 operating system. This IT environment includes a portal system for local residents and an IT network used by the municipal employees as well as the region's schools. Horby...
- Tags: Security, Network, Information Technology, Municipality, Horby Kommun, Portals, Strategy, Networking, Internet, Management
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Supporting Municipal Business Models With Cisco Outdoor Wireless Solutions
- Outdoor wireless networks are playing a vital role in helping municipalities deliver critical services to citizens. In addition to evaluating access technologies, governments must consider the best business model for their specific funding and support needs. This paper defines emerging business models, and identifies the managed services model as the...
- Tags: Municipality, Cisco Systems Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-10-01
- An anti-telco blind spot
- I just posted something I wrote last night, but upon reading today's headlines on ZDNet, I just HAD to respond to what is, to my mind, incomprehensible blindness on the part of net neutrality advocates who seem intent on chopping off their nose to spite their face. Protesters gathered in...
- Tags: phone company, telephone, video
- Blog posts 2006-05-25
- Senator plans Net taxes but no Net neutrality
- Senator plans Net taxes but no Net neutralityA whole series of trade-offs.Sections of the bill are contradictory in that they encourage an industry in one section and oppose its interests in another. I wonder whether sufficient support can be obtained by inserting everyone's ideas at once.The provision I would...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Broadband Internet, tax, Net Neutrality, Net tax, broadband, municipality, Internet, Steven
- Discussion threads 2006-04-25
- Public Services Simplified With Restructured Processes and Single Point of Contact
- The Vale do Sousa Digital project was launched by six municipalities to simplify and improve the quality of their public services and information by reengineering back-office processes and developing regional portals for citizens, businesses, and tourists. Under a tight deadline, the municipalities developed the portals using the Microsoft .NET Framework....
- Tags: Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Organizational Structure, Internet, Human Resources
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Central Environment and Web Portals Improve Service Delivery to Tourists and Citizens
- Managed by Globalgarve, a public-private regional economic development agency, the Algarve Digital project was launched to provide online tourism and public administration services in the Algarve. A central technology environment based on Microsoft Windows Server System integrated server software supports regional portals for tourism and e-government services as well as...
- Tags: Environment, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Web Portal, Algarve Digital, E-government, Portals, Web Technology, Servers, Government, Internet, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Project Automates Services in 14 Municipalities, Boosts Regional Knowledge Economy
- The Association of Municipalities of the District of Evora AMDE, in partnership with the Regional Development Agency of Alentejo, University of Evora, and Evora City Council, is leading the Evora Digital District Project to help the growth of the regional knowledge economy and to bring its 14 associate municipalities and...
- Tags: Knowledge, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Strategy, Internet, Management
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Danish Municipality Cuts Word Document Templates With Customised Template Management System
- The Municipality of Aarhus administers local government services to citizens in Denmark's second biggest city. The council wanted to take advantage of a migration to Microsoft Office 2003 Editions and Microsoft Windows Server 2003, to improve the management of templates for its officers and caseworkers. Advised by Ementor, the municipality...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office 2003, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Hardware
- Case studies 2005-11-28
- Nortel Network Case Study: Arendal Municipality
- The Arendal town hall is the administrative centre of the municipality of Arendal, one of 15 municipalities in the county of Aust Augder, which is one of 19 counties in Norway. The company wanted: to enable employees to hot-desk freely in the new town hall; to provide them with a...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Municipality, WLAN, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2005-10-20
- Municipal Infrastructure Construction Discussion Paper
- Municipalities have raised recent concern about escalating prices and the general availability of resources to undertake ramping up infrastructure rehabilitation and municipal works programs. Municipalities fear that the buying power of the funding they have long awaited will be significantly diminished or lost due to rising prices. Municipalities wish to...
- Tags: Municipality, Engineering, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-10-03
- Muni wireless a $700 million business
- What's the size of the municipal wireless market? Esme Vos, who runs the great MuniWireless site, has released a study that project U.S. cities, towns and counties will spend nearly $700 million over the next three years. The market will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 134 percent...
- Tags: wireless, municipality, municipal Wireless
- Blog posts 2005-09-28
- While Baby Bells sit on their assets...
- While Baby Bells sit on their assets...Why are municipalities the only competitors?The current battle is telephone vs. cable. I think we can agree that both will survive, and absorb related technologies. Telephone/cellular and cable/satellite.What's left? WiFi/WiMax.WiFi is being supplied by the telephone companies, but not as the...
- Tags: Government, Wireless LANs, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, Wi-Fi, asset, duopoly, cable, phone, municipality, Baby Bell, Google Inc., cable company
- Discussion threads 2005-08-22
- Intel to back municipal broadband role
- Intel to back municipal broadband roleMan, cities have rights too. By this, you should ban public libraries too.I lived in a city where they generated their own electricity. Guess what, we payed a lot less in electricity than other people being robbed by big utilities. And, as long as the...
- Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Who-ever, broadband, Intel Corp., municipality, cable
- Discussion threads 2005-01-11
- Competition in telecom brings lower prices
- The General Accounting Office said the new providers are offering competition to existing telephone and cable operators, but few customers get the benefits because they operate only in a few cities. In addition, because of problems raising money and signing up customers, the long-term viability of these providers is not...
- Tags: Residents, municipality
- Blog posts 2004-02-10
- Nortel Networks Case Study: Arendal
- The Arendal town hall is the administrative centre of the municipality of Arendal, one of 15 municipalities in the county of Aust Augder, which is one of 19 counties in Norway. Arendal's new town hall required a sophisticated, yet cost-effective, converged voice and data solution, including high-quality wireless IP Telephony....
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Municipality, Arendal, VOIP, Business Structures, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Finance
- Case studies
- City of Burlington Manages Growth With Activity-Based Costing
- Located west of Toronto, the city of Burlington is a growing municipality with a long-term vision to manage growth and development in a way that maintains a strong network of residential neighborhoods, a diverse economic base, a sound infrastructure, a fiscally stable metropolis and an environmentally sensitive community. Land development...
- Tags: Burlington, Municipality, SAS Institute, Activity Based Costing, Managerial Accounting, Pricing, Finance, Marketing
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- Meeting Danish Municipality's Demands for Full Uptime With Symantec Data Protection Solution
- Hvidovre Municipality is one of the largest municipalities in Denmark. To ensure that citizens receive the best possible service and that the authority delivers on its efficiency remit, Hvidovre needed to re-evaluate its storage infrastructure: bottlenecks and other issues that were in danger of compromising high availability. By implementing an...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Municipality, Uptime, Hvidovre Municipality, Storage, Security, Hardware
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- Municipality Adopts Web-Based Infrastructure to Provide Round-the-Clock Public Services
- The Municipality of Karlskrona in Sweden wanted to create a new Web-based system that would give its citizens access to public services at all times. Its IT infrastructure, based on Novell, was too fragmented and complicated to upgrade, so, with the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners HP and Cornerstone,...
- Tags: Web, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Taxes, Free Trade, Channel Management, Microsoft Windows, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- Spanish Municipality Streamlines Services With New Document Management System
- The Sant Andreu de la Barca Municipality in Catalonia, Spain, wanted to modernise its administration and document management systems to provide better citizen-centric services to a growing population. After assessing several specialised solutions, the municipality decided to deploy Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003, with consultancy advice from Microsoft Gold...
- Tags: Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
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- Municipality Streamlines Public Parking for Citizens With Automated Parking Solution
- The public utility company "PU Parking" in Subotica, Serbia, is in charge of organizing, collecting fees, and managing parking services in Subotica. In order to adequately solve the problem of crowded vehicles in the central city zone and to increase profit, PU Parking selected a solution from technology provider Pakom...
- Tags: Municipality, Microsoft Corp., SMS4Parking Solution, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Networking
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