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- The Portuguese Municipality of Matosinhos Links Back-Office Data With Online Service Delivery to Make Life Easier for Citizens and Civil Servants
- The project to improve city services became known as SIMPLIFE Simplify. The main goal was to see what motivated the citizens to go to the city hall. The author identified over 2,000 different reasons to go and talk to the municipality." By solving the three core areas of SIMPLIFE, Matosinhos...
- Tags: Citizens LLC, Municipality, Microsoft Corp., Back-office, Servant, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance, Marketing
- Case studies 2009-09-21
- Innovative Service Project Puts Cascais at the e-Citizen Forefront
- The municipality of Cascais is part of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, and manages a total of six counties with over 170,000 inhabitants. The municipality needed an efficient, geographically dispersed solution to interact with local residents, but capable of being a One Stop Shop for citizens' municipal relations. The One Stop...
- Tags: Citizen, Municipality, Internet, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-07-02
- RFID Application in Municipal Solid Waste Management System
- Processing and recovery is a key functional element in Municipal Solid Waste Management System MSWMS. Reuse, recycle and recovery of valuable components of waste stream are given much attention in MSWMS in both developed and developing countries. The main concern of municipalities is the sound management of recyclable materials. Source...
- Tags: University Of Melbourne, Municipality, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2009-01-25
- City of Heemskerk Improves Data Availability, Scalability, and Security
- The City of Heemskerk is a medium-sized municipality located in the center of The Netherlands' province of North Holland. This area, which was originally agricultural and is located in the triangle between Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Alkmaar, was among the fastest-growing municipalities in the Netherlands in the 1960s. It needed to...
- Tags: Security, Netherlands, Oracle Corp., Scalability, Municipality, Linux, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Dutch Municipality Modernizes IT Environment With New Desktop Software
- When the Dutch municipality of Heumen decided to modernize its IT infrastructure, it became the first government organization in the Netherlands to migrate directly to the Windows Vista operating system. The benefits of the upgrade were evident immediately; the new desktop infrastructure is robust and user-friendly, and is helping Heumen...
- Tags: Software, IT Environment, Information Technology, Desktop Software, Municipality, Desktops, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-06-12
- The Province of Brescia Creates Flexible, Scalable eGovernment Infrastructure to Improve Service
- The largest province in Lombardy, Brescia includes 206 municipalities and contributes 3% of Italy's total gross domestic product. The challenge was to apply the concept of reuse to the province's information systems, replicating systems used by other organizations and create a network of municipalities that organizes demand for information and...
- Tags: Public Sector, Oracle Corp., Municipality, E-government, Portals, Government, Internet
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Small Government Municipality Deploys PCs With Intel Core 2 Processor With vPro Technology to Improve Uptime and Reduce Costs
- The Town of Winchester is a municipality in Connecticut with 100 employees. The township manages police, fire, dispatch, and water, along with roads, zoning, tax assessments, and other aspects of a municipality. These critical priorities need to be met while meeting tight budget requirements. Off late, the township deployed PCs...
- Tags: Intel vPro, PC, Municipality, Uptime, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Government Municipality, Taxes, Free Trade, Processors, Financial Planning, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Harryda Municipality Improves Service to Residents With Service-Oriented IT Architecture
- The municipality of Harryda, which is part of the Goteborg region, is located between Goteborg and Boras, Sweden. It has approximately 32,000 residents, and more than half of the largely rural municipality is covered by forest. It needed to improve operational efficiency by automating processes, to provide more responsive service...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Municipality, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, City, 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, Storage Management, 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, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing
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- 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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- Bergen County Utilities Authority Improves Public Relations by Implementing New Speech System
- The Bergen County Utilities Authority BCUA is a public utility providing sewage disposal for 46 municipalities, as well as solid waste services for 70 municipalities, in Bergen County, New Jersey. The BCUA's new system needed to meet several criteria such as incorporate over 150 names and departments and monitor and...
- Tags: Municipality, Avaya Inc., Bergen County Utilities Authority, Speech Recognition, Public Relations, Monitors & Displays, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Components
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