User:Mmaguire/iSAC 6+

New article name iSAC 6+

Initial draft outline only:

iSAC 6+ is a European Commission funded initiative under Framewowk 7 that aims to develop pragmatic solutions to help disseminate information about eGovernment tools and services. This project started *.*.2009 and will finish in *.* 2012. It involves partners from * countries.

The project aim is to develop models for citizen's information / citizens' attention services that relate to local use and needs.

Several benefits will accrue from its development, adoption and use:

These include:

Extended access to public and public service information At lower staff costs With improved search and responses for end users Ability to seek support from a real person

The project is led by: The Univesity of Girona, Spain in partnership with:


 * The European Institute of Women's Health, Ireland

Yorkshire Police, United Kingdom

City of Terrassa, Spain

City of            ,Spain

,Italy,

,Belgium

Municipality of     .France

City of Bremerhaven, Germany

Background iSAC has been developed as Open Source Software by the UdG. The owners of the software are the Ajuntament de Terrassa (TER), the Consorci de l’Administració Oberta de Catalunya (AOC) and the Universitat de Girona (UdG), all of whom are iSAC6+ participants.

iSAC will be delivered under the EUPL v.1.0 to the rest of the partners of the iSAC6+ consortium, as well as to future users and developers after the project completion.

A dual license will be established for further modules or developments, in those cases where it might be convenient

Reference framework

OS benefits for public administrations

A Specific Community of Practice is up and running on www.epractice.eu/community/isac6. This virtual community of practice (CoP) is moderated and allows you to post any question you’d have on the project. If you’d like to participate actively in iSAC, please email Baudouin.de-Sonis@eu-forum.org

Description of the isac applicative architecture

Brief explanation on how to use the isac platform