Silicon Republic: New public information website replaces Oasis

by Alexander Limi — last modified May 22, 2007 - 06:47

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Oasis was originally built in-house using open source technology and for the latest version of the site a more substantial content management system was chosen. Comhairle remained faithful to open source, choosing a system called Plone.

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The new site, renamed www.citizensinformation.ie, takes the place of the existing e-government initiative known as Oasis as well as Comhairle’s online Citizens Information Database (CID).

The searchable database of 8,000 public service addresses such as Garda stations, social welfare offices and schools has now been made more visible on the site, under the heading ‘find an address’. The emphasis in all this will be to increase uptake of the service among the public. “We also hope to use RSS [really simple syndication] to syndicate more content to other organisations than we do today,” added Hughes.

Industry: Government
Country: Ireland
Published: Oct 19, 2006

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