Harnessing Free and Open Source in Local Government - Conference
LOCAL GOVERNMENT OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE 2009: EFFICIENCY, TRANSFORMATION AND INNOVATION
1st April 2009 - Manchester United Football Club
I will be presenting a case study on Kent Connects Portals, a Plone based set of portals for a local government initiative:
Kent Connects: Harnessing Open Source for Shared Services and Partnership Working. Debbie Wisdom, Strategic Director, Kent Connects and Matt Hamilton, Technical Director, Netsight Internet Solutions and international board director of the Plone Foundation.
Kent Connects, the lead technology partnership in Kent & Medway, are using Plone Content Management System to provide partners from different public sector organisations with a flexible, virtual online space to collaborate and share information and knowledge via the internet in a secure way. Learn how Kent Connects came to be using Plone and what the benefits, issues and lessons learnt have been in adopting OSS for the partnership. Find out more about Plone, its community of practice and the opportunities it can offer the public sector.
