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PloneGov: Health Atlas Ireland wins the Irish Public Service Excellence Award 2008

by Zea Partners — 2008-04-25 10:11

Health Atlas Ireland is an open source application developed to bring health related datasets, statistical tools and GIS together in a web environment to add value to existing health data. The application is part of the PloneGov project, an international Plone based egovernment collaborative initiative.

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Plone: Kent Connects project makes final four in Innovation Awards

by Zea Partners — 2008-04-18 15:49

The Kent Connects 'Portal of Portals' project has been shortlisted in the final four in the category of Best Government to Government Project in this year's GC Awards for Innovation. A central part of the Kent Connects is built on the Plone content management system.

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New impulse for PloneGov from Plone Sorrento Sprint 2008

by Zea Partners — 2008-04-18 15:46

Italian ZEA Partners members are planning a number of initiatives to launch the PloneGov branch in Italy: an italian PloneGov site, a stand at COMPA 2008, and the organization of special event dedicated to Public Administrations.

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Public Health geospatial data with Zope

by Zea Partners — 2008-03-27 19:21

Health Atlas Ireland is an open source Geographical Information System (GIS). The system enables to plan health services and health data analysis. The project, led by Irish Health Sector, is based on Zope3. OpenApp, a Zea member SME, was in charge of the technical development ensuring a smooth integration with the core technology.

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PloneGov : a young eGovernment project with great promises

by Zea Partners — 2008-03-14 14:20

PloneGov shows something that hackers of FLOSS in the public sector have long talked about: Public bodies only stand to gain from cooperating in software development and procurement. Though developing applications is obviously not the remit of most public bodies, free licenses provide a highly efficient tool to share development cost and mutualise risks.

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PloneGov: Public Sector achieving independence from large IT providers

by Zea Partners — 2008-03-05 12:29

The European Commission recently released a detailed case study about our innovative collaborative project. In the weeks to come, Zea Partners proposes to publish excerpts as a serialized novel, this is a link to the first episode about independence from large IT providers.

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PloneGov : Bringing Plone to Local Governements

by Zea Partners — 2007-12-18 12:38

Plone is one of the best known Free Software Content Management Systems (CMS) in the market. Much of the importance of Plone lies in its power and flexibility, enabling it to be applied in a wide variety of contexts.

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PloneGov awarded by the European Commission

by Zea Partners — 2007-11-27 17:08

The PloneGov team is proud to announce that their eGovernment open source initiative based on Plone has been awarded the “Good Practice label 2007”. PloneGov receives this prestigious label based on the recommendation from the 2007 European eGovernment Awards consortium.

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PloneGov in WhyFloss2007, Buenos Aires

by Roberto Allende — 2007-11-27 16:14

During december 6-7 in the WhyFloss 2007 conference to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Roberto Allende will present the talk: PloneGov: an international project for cooperation between governments open to Latin America.

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City of Newport News Offers Free Web-Site Software and Knowledge Base

by Zea Partners — 2007-10-14 15:36

The city of Newport News, Va., is offering the software that runs its Web site as well as the knowledge base through the implementation process to any organization or individual, free of charge. "Our intent is to create a collaborative software ecosystem," said Newport News IT Director Andy Stein, "where government organizations, non-profits and the private sector work together to share the cost of enhanced capabilities."

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Rosario, the third largest Argentinian city, joins PloneGov

by Zea Partners — 2007-09-23 19:54

Rosario, an Argentinian city of 1 million inhabitants, joins the PloneGov initiative. This new member highlights PloneGov ability to reach major cities and different continents.

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Tabellio, a Belgian collaborative development initiative, joins the PloneGov project

by Zea Partners — 2007-09-18 15:02

Tabellio [http://www.tabellio.org] is a parliamentary toolbox, consisting of an information system for drafting, managing and publishing legislative documents and other parliamentary data; and of other generic tools for public administration.

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Open eGov, a US collaborative software initiative, joins PloneGov

by Zea Partners — 2007-08-24 13:00

Open eGov is a project launched by the City of Newport News, Virginia. The intent is to create a collaborative software ecosystem, where government organizations, non-profits and the private sector work together to share the cost of enhanced capabilities. The software and related documentation is available today for free download.

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PloneGov : 2 online demonstrations available

by Zea Partners — 2007-08-10 11:03

Demonstration of two of our major products are available on CommunesPlone website. Don't hesitate to test it.

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PloneGov: vote for the “most innovative good practice” EU award

by Zea Partners — 2007-08-24 10:58

PloneGov has been selected amongst 53 finalists for the Third European e-Governement Awards. PloneGov's goal is to develop a set of generic tools matching the needs of local government and other public administrations. The initiative is open and aims to reach many more organizations. Each of you can vote for PloneGov in the "most innovative good practice" category and thus help, in concrete terms, this new e-Government open source initiative.

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Rosario received Plone training

by Roberto Allende — 2007-07-31 11:57

As a part of the PloneGov integration, different IT teams of the Municipalidad de Rosario in Argentina received Plone training

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PloneGov selected as a finalist of the European e-Government Awards

by Zea Partners — 2007-07-16 16:28

PloneGov is selected among the 52 best European e-Government projects, and is invited to present the project at the fourth Ministerial eGovernment Conference held in Lisbon in September 2007. PloneGov projects relies on 2 renowned open source software : Plone and Zope. Its success results from a close collaboration between public organizations and Zea Partners, an international network of SME building Zope and Plone solutions.

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Belgian Minister Courard met the community

by Zea Partners — 2007-07-11 15:58

Local and regional governments and SME from Europe, North and South America and Africa participate in the PloneGov project. The goals of this close collaboration is to develop in a cooperative manner, applications and websites suited for public organization for their own use as well as for their citizens’. In June, this innovative project was awarded the Lutèce d’Or 2007 Grand Prix du Jury. Philippe COURARD, Walloon minister of Homelands affairs, met the PloneGov Belgian Community to congratulate them for their exceptional implication.

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Bungeni, a United Nations collaborative development initiative, joins the PloneGov project.

by Zea Partners — 2007-06-22 09:10

Bungeni is a Parliamentary and Legislative Information System for drafting, managing, consolidating and publishing legislative and other parliamentary documents. It is being developed within the context the "Africa i-Parliaments Action Plan" of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). It is meant to contribute to making Parliaments more open and accessible to citizens ... virtually allowing them "inside Parliament" or Bungeni -- the Kiswahili word for "inside Parliament". PloneGov and Bungeni decide to join efforts to share experience and their developments.

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PloneGov won the biggest French open source project award

by Zea Partners — 2007-06-22 09:08

We are proud to announce that the new Plone e-government initiative won the biggest French award for open source projects on Jun13 during a ceremony held in the town hall of the city of Paris. This award, called "Grand prix du jury des Lutèce d'Or 2007", demonstrates PloneGov work quality and encourages us to continue on this way.

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