Redturtle Technology

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RedTurtle is specialized in consulting and developing intranet and internet solutions based on Plone.

Based in Ferrara, Italy, RedTurtle Technology is a customer-oriented company whose motto, "Sharing knowledge about knowledge sharing", conveys an open attitude: in solving groupware and content management problems, as well as in the production of open CMS Plone-based solutions compliant with accessibility regulations, we see the autonomy we provide to the customer as the most valuable element of our strategy.
RedTurtle Technology comes into existence in 1999 to work in the Internet / intranet field with special attention to the Open Source world, and objectives including:

• design and production of bespoke complex applications, made on Customer’s specifications,
• development of RedTurtle’s own turnkey solutions,
• managed hosting services based on RedTurtle's own Server Room.
  

Since early Nineties, the charter members have  been dealing with Internet technologies. Since then, the research for groundbreaking solutions continues uninterruptedly, granting an advisory and consulting ability with very few competitors in the national market. This goes with the highest qualifications achieved by the technical coordinators, whose continuing education is based on the attendance to the most significant Italian and international technical events, as well as on the involvment of our people in national and worldwide technical communities.
 
RedTurtle, a firm believer in the Open Source model, has always released its source code even in closed-source environments. An IBM partner since 2000, in October 2007 joined ZEA Partners (http://www.zeapartners.org/), the international no profit organization among worldwide Zope and Plone developers.

RedTurtle is actively involved in the promotion of PloneGov in Italy, and was the first Italian Plone company whose customers joined the PloneGov initiative

Case Studies

Government: Chamber of Commerce of Bologna (Italy )

A reusable, customized, service-oriented Plone portal for the businesses

Government: Quasar / Scrivania Virtuale (Italy )

A Plone "Intelligent Intranet" suite of applications, integrating document and dossier management with ISO 9001:2000 - certified organization processes, in a mid-sized Italian Public Organization.

Deployed Sites

ACOI - Associazione Chirurghi Ospedalieri Italiani (Italy )

Founded in 1980, ACOI (Associazione Italiana Chirurghi Ospedalieri, Italian Association of Hospital Surgeons) is among the most influential scientific associations in Italy, pursuing technical, political and ethical objectives. RedTurtle has developed a PLONE-based solutions for the ACOI institutional portal: the portal structure is conceived for ease of use and accessibility, an achievement that we regard as quite impressive, in the light of the diversity of issues in the Association's focus. The portal is meant also as a scientific reference for ACOI members as well as for the general public. The compromise between exhaustiveness and clarity has been carefully balanced.

AUSL Ferrara (Italy )

Ferrara AUSL (Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale) is an Health Institution operating in the province of Ferrara. It provides health services and social care to citizens. It manages all the hospitals (there are seven of them in all the province) and outpatients' departments.

Ambientarsi è naturale (Italy )

City parks are containers of stories, and also places where people meet nature. People of every age talk, practice sports, play or simply relax. Parks are backgrounds for life experiences, as well as opportunities for dialogue and observation. The City of Reggio Emilia decided to give voice and images to this aspect of city parks, issuing a new guide and a new website, "Ambientarsi è naturale” (with a play on words on the term "Environment" not easily translated in English, something like "It's natural to familiarize with one's surroundings"), where anyone may autonomously post the stories and the faces of those who actually make the parks alive. The site is rich in practical information, but also in words and pictures collected among those who love to hang out there: a sort of participated encyclopedia of city's green areas.

Associazione Reno Galliera (Italy )

Plone’s qualities make it perfectly fit for collaborative Intranet and portals: knowing this potential, the Intercommunal Association “Reno Galliera”, Bologna province, has chosen RedTurtle’s Plone – based proposal for the restructuring of its Intranet. The entry of Plone in the Intercommunal Association will give each Municipality a better knowledge the capabilities of this flexible CMS, and this lets RedTurtle hope that new opportunities may arise for Plone municipal portals and intranets.

Biblioteca Accessibile (Accessible Library) (Italy )

A Plone meta-search engine, "Biblioteca Virtuale Italiana di Testi in Formato Alternativo" (Italian Virtial Library of Alternative Format Texts) it provides a front-end interface to submit transparently any bibliographic search to a set of separate search engines, integrating the search results from the various sources. This site is a part of a wider and ambitious project, aimed at providing a better and more complete barrier-free access to electronic format texts for handicapped people.

CMCC - Centro Euro Mediterraneo Cambiamenti Climatici (Italy )

The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change is a research organization that studies climate variability, its causes and its consequences, using numerical models ranging from Global Earth System to Regional models within the Euro-Mediterranean area. The Euro-Mediteranean Centre for Climate Change is a Ltd Company (CMCC S.c.a.r.l.) with its registered office and administration in Lecce and local units in Bologna, Venice, Capua, Sasari and Milan. The society doesn't pursue profitable ends and aims to realize and manage the Centre, its promotion, and research coordination and different scientific and applied activities in the field of climate change study. These activities are developed exclusively for the Center's work objectives, and favour collaboration among Universities, national and international research bodies, territorial bodies and the industrial sector. It operates in these circles in the name and on behalf of its consortium partners. The management of the Centre and the research activities developed by its Divisions follows the guidelines listed at the following URL: http://www.cmcc.it/welcome-at-cmccs-web-site?set_language=en

Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara (Italy )

The Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Craft Trade and Agriculture of Ferrara is an independent public body that supports and promotes the general interests of businesses in Ferrara. The website, recently migrated to Plone 3, provides services including online payments, online form compilation and transmission, and integration with electronic ID system ("Business key"). A case study will soon be published on Plone.net.

Chamber of Commerce of Bologna (Italy )

The Chamber of Commerce of Bologna is using the same Plone solution - originally deveeloped by the Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara - also shared by many other similar institutions in the Emilia Romagna region. Also the Plone3-based Intranet is based on the Ferrara solution.

Chamber of Commerce of Pesaro and Urbino (Italy )

Also the Chamber of Commerce of Pesaro and Urbino, world noted art cities in the Marche region, use the Plone solution from Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara.

Chamber of Commerce of Ravenna (Italy )

The Chamber of Commerce of Ravenna is the reference institution for all the trading, industrial and agricultural activities in the province of Ravenna, world noted for art and tourism. Its website is closely related with Ferrara's Chamber of Commerce's, as they share the same Plone solution.

Chamber of Commerce of Rimini (Italy )

The Chamber of Commerce of Rimini, world noted touristic location on the Adriatic sea, is using the Plone solution developed by the Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara.

Chamber of Commerce of Treviso (Italy )

The Chamber of Commerce of Treviso is using the Plone 3 Intranet originally developed by the Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara.

City of Ferrara - Technical Commission for Accessibility (Italy )

This Plone site provides the citizens with a tool for signaling architechtonical barriers or other problems (like abuse of reserved parking lots) that may impede the mobility of disabled people. A part of a region-wide effort by Regione Emilia Romagna to implement public websites with "Web 2.0" functionalities, it allows any registered user to locate the issue with the highest precision, thanks to a Google Maps-based interface. Issue tracker functionalities are available, and the status of each issue is publicly available on the website, and may be accessed also by unauthenticated citizens.

City of Piacenza - Giovani Artisti Piacentini (Italy )

A Plone-powered web community for the young artist of the City of Piacenza, this Plone site lets any artist build its own personal gallery and describe his aims and methods. A part of a region-wide effort by Regione Emilia Romagna to implement public websites with "Web 2.0" functionalities, it includes media support, and may be regarded as an innovative and stimulating effort in e-participation.

Comune di Mirandola (Italy )

The Commune of Mirandola, leading an union of Communes in the northern plains of the Province of Modena, recently released its new Plone site, particularly rich in contents and services, including: job offers, calls for tenders, open competitions for jobs in the public sector, also coming from the other communes in the area. The availability of a complete set of services, including tourist information, was very welcome by the citizens and fulfilled the high expectations of the Commune's deciders.

Comune di Modena (Italy )

The City of Modena adopted Plone as a platform for the development of its web sites, with the aim of improving the quality and the number of the on line services offered to the citizens. The importance of its presence in PloneGov is even greater, considering that Mo-Net is recognized nationwide as a best practice and plays a reference role for the web sites of Public Administrations of any size. The conversion process to Plone, including extensive training of the personnel from many different offices, will be gradual and by now has involved some sub-sites.

Comune di Padova (Italy )

The Commune of Padova, world-noted art and culture city, has been using Plone for some years for its Intranet, and is planning to develop further features for document management, groupware and virtual workspace / virtual desktop, as well as for the continuing education of its personnel, deeply involved in the technologic evolution processes. Among the strategies chosen, the reuse of Plone components and applications developed by other Italian PloneGov members.

Comune di Quartu S.Elena (Italy )

Quartu Sant'Elena, a Commune with a population of more than 70.000 in the Cagliari Province, has chosen Plone for the digital management of its Public Relations Office, and is evaluating the extension of Plone technology to its Web portal and to its Intranet. The internal IT structure of the Commune is gaining the competence needed for the management, the maintenance and the evolution of its Plone solution.

Dire Fare Partecipare (Italy )

The City of Reggio Emilia was one of the first Italian local public administrations to activate structured participative processes. Besides activating the local "Agenda 21", the organization decided to start several experiences both at city level and at quarter / neighborhood level, thus favoring nearness to the citizens and offering them an opportunity to get actively involved in the definition and in the implementation of projects aimed at improving the quality of life in the city. This policy articulates on three main objectives: - empowering and diversifying the channels and the modes of listening and dialogue with the citizens, to learn about their needs in a systematic and capillary way, thanks also to the involvement of City Precincts; - favoring the participation of the citizens in the process of planning the future of the city, thus following democracy and ensuring that the collected requests are adequately considered by political and technical bodies in charge of the planning; - starting a process for a further development of City Precincts ("Circoscrizioni"), to reinstate them in their original role of "proximity government", that is to say, places and instruments for participative decision and social cohesion among all the citizens. "Dire Fare Partecipare" ("To say, to do, to participate") website, specifically devoted to participation, is the answer to those needs and a sign of commitment by the City of Reggio Emilia. It's not meant just as a "showcase" giving a complete overview of the enacted participative processes, but - first and foremost - it's meant as a “participation and transparency tool” to encourage active involvement by the citizens, also by testing new channels and media.

EPISCON - European Ph.D. in Science for Conservation (Italy )

In order to promote the synergy between the cultural heritage field, and the natural sciences and engineering, the European Community's Marie Curie programme is funding the project EPISCON - European Ph.D. in Science for Conservation. The goal of EPISCON is to develop the first generation of "true" conservation scientists in Europe.

FerraraForum.com (Italy )

Promoted by the Chamber of Commerce and the Province of Ferrara, the "Tourism Forum of Ferrara Province" is an experimental discussion forum about tourism conceived as a virtual meeting point for all the operators, the businesses, the institutions, and the associations of the Ferrarese territory, as well as to any subject interested in keeping alive the debate about themes related with tourism. On their part, both the Chamber of Commerce and the Province use FerraraForum to publish reference norms, laws, publications and news related with the tourism business, including announcements of financing initiatives promoted by the Chamber of Commerce and the Province themselves, as well as by other institutions. Still in its first weeks of activity, in a tourism-oriented territory like Ferrara and its province, FerraraForum has the potential of becoming a successful initiative.

Futuro Sostenibile (Italy )

Some years ago, the City of Reggio Emilia begun taking up locally the big global sustainability challenge, a challenge that can be successfully faced only by communities caring for the conservation of natural resources, as well as for the protection and improvement of natural and urban environment, but at the same time prosperous, creative, supportive and capable of ensuring a good quality of life to all the citizens. To steer - and implement on a local plan - policies up to this challenge, the City Administration, in addition to the several projects and sector actions already enacted, also activated specific tools and projects that may be considered as "special", for their strategic and transversal nature. For this purpose, European and International organizations have been predisposing for several years a "toolbox for sustainable development". The "toolbox" adopted by the City of Reggio Emilia is particularly rich in tools - some of them are mainly technical, while other point above all on participation and sharing with the local communities.

Governare con i cittadini (Italy )

The Administration of the City of Reggio Emilia, with the Department of Public Function, Formez and collaborating with the Emilia Romagna Region, organized in Reggio Emilia, from 14 to 16 October 2008, three days of study ad dialogue about the change in the relations between institutions and citizens, with specific reference to the issues of participative democracy and horizontal subsidiarity. The initiative took place on the occasion of the European Week of Local Democracy, promoted by the European Council with the patronage of the European Commission. Participants to the convention where mainly representatives from Public Administrations, universities and associations. Many administrations related about their experiences about problems and solutions to the issues of citizen participation in services management and decisional processes, experiences previously selected nationwide by a Technical-Scientific Committee (formed by experts, university teachers and scholars) from 73 candidate entries.

I Reggiani, per esempio (Italy )

A ‘census’, a collection - promoted by the City of Reggio Emilia in collaboration with local organizations and associations - of all those spontaneously-adopted behaviors - enacted by singles, associations, groups, parishes, Public or Social organizations, businesses - that benefit other citizens in one's own community, or support the city's general interests. More than 300 experiences of active citizenship and life stories, narrated by more than 200 different subjects, where publicly shown to the city in a themed evening with the participation of the City Mayor, the Nobel Prize for Literature Dario Fo, scholars, journalists and politicians. The Italian President expressed his appreciation for the initiative in a telegram to the City Mayor.

Informagiovani Arezzo (Italy )

The Informagiovani portal is a showcase of cultural, free time and professional opportunities for the young people of the City of Arezzo. It needs to be accessible and effective, because the kind of people using the portal is much at ease with the new technologies and has high expectations: and this effectiveness is the fruit of a correct design, and of good policies about the kind of contents to be published. The task of content management is accomplished, under the supervision of the City of Arezzo, by two co-ops very capable in catching the current intellectual climate, Beta Coop Sociale di tipo B ONLUS (www.coopbeta.it) and Il Contesto Piccola Società Cooperativa (www.ilcontesto.net). Good contents and good CMS are the key to success for www.ig-ar.it

Italian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (Italy )

It aims at providing any subject waiting for a transplantation of "Hematopoietic stem cell", lacking any HLA-compatible blood relative, a non-familiar adult volunteer or a cord blood unit, with immunogenic characters capable of ensuring a therapeutic treatment with reasonable chances of success.

Ospedali Galliera Genova (Italy )

Ospedali Galliera of Genova, one of the most important Italian hospitals, also hosting the Italian Bone Marrow Donor register, recently released its new Plone website. A significant communication effort was put in the redesign of the site, that gave to the organization a very welcome opportunity to join PloneGov. The new site raised the interest of other similar institutions, and parts of it will be publicly released for reuse within the "PloneGov Italia" community.

Province of Ferrara (Intranet) (Italy )

The Province of Ferrara is an intermediate organization of Emilia Romagna Region (Italy) that in 2008 has started migrating and developing with the Plone open source platform its internal IT systems (Intranet, documents and procedures management). The Province of Ferrara is a member of PloneGov (www.plonegov.org), the worldwide best practice uniting Plone users from the Public Sector.

Unioncamere Emilia Romagna (Italy )

The Regional Union of the Chambers of Commerce of the Emilia Romagna Region adopted the Plone portal offered by the Chamber of Commerce of Ferrara. Subsites were deployed, including http://www.rer.camcom.it/progetto-network.