Fossa2010 floss services_poznan
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The document discusses FLOSS-based municipal services in the City of Poznan, Poland. It describes the multimedia city guide portal developed since 1998 in cooperation with the municipal office. It provides e-services for citizens and businesses using a pragmatic approach. It highlights several FLOSS-based services including broadcasting of city council sessions, multimedia clips, an interactive city map, public internet access points, open data, and tools for citizen participation. It advocates for continuing to develop open and participatory e-government services and platforms.
Fossa2010 floss services_poznan
- 1. FLOSS-based municipal services in the City of Poznań Bartosz Lewandowski FOSSa Conference November 9th, 2010 Grenoble, France
- 2. Outline • Multimedia City Guide • e-Services for citizens&businesses • Open access • FLOSS based services • Open gov/gov 2.0 • Conclusion 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 3. Multimedia City Guide • Multimedia City Guide, http://www.poznan.pl • The biggest information portal of the city of Poznań • The platform of e-Government services for citizens and businesses • Developed since 1998 in co-operation with the Municipal Office • PSNC is responsible for the technological part • Local government, its departments and co- operating institutions are responsible for the content of the Portal and its structure • The information platform of the Town Hall, its departments and units • 1000+ editors 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 4. e-Services for citizens&businesses • „Pragmatic approach” • Critical for citizens • For mass audience • Improving procedures&processes • Identifying weak points • Re-engineering of processes • Data consistency, avoiding redundancy • Learning lessons from administration staff working in „traditional” channels 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 5. Open access (1) • Multi-channel access • Internet (www), • Mobile users (WAP), • CATV subscribers (Set Tob Box) 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 6. Open access (2) • Information level • W3C standards & guidelines regarding information presentation (XHTML), the sctructure and the content separation (CSS) • W3C standards & guidelines regarding information accessibility (WAI, WCAG) • Access for blind people (using their screen readers) • Videoclips presenting selected portal elements in sign language 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 7. Some examples of FLOSS-based services 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 8. Broadcasting • Online transmission from City Council sessions • Streaming • OSS tools: OGG Vorbis, OGG Theora, icecast • Audio archive from City Council sessions • mp3 format • Semantic description according to sessions agendas 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 9. Multimedia clips Audio: mp3 Video: flash video (flv) Tools: server: ffmpeg, flvtool2 (metadata!) client: FlowPlayer (flv), XSPF Web Music Player (mp3) http://www.poznan.pl/wideo 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 10. City map • Based on city Spatial Information System • Modules, layers • Ortophoto • Search streets & address points • FLOSS tools • Posgres/PostGIS • Geoserver • Tilecache • OpenLayers • Foundation for complex services 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 11. City map as a platform • Interactive maps of cemeteries in Poznań • Based on the city map • Open platform for any cemetery in the city 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 12. Public Internet Access Points • Preventing the “digital divide” • Computer education • Increasing accessibility to e- services and municipial information • Based on Open Source platform • Fedora Linux • Squid (content filtering) 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 13. Open gov/gov 2.0
- 14. Open government • By Tim O’Reilly – government as a platform • Open Standards Spark Innovation and Growth • Build a Simple System and Let It Evolve • Design for Participation • Open data • Web 2.0 tools empowering gov staff • “It’s not a case of pushing information out, it’s not about just supply; it is about demand” Guy Cranswick, IBRS 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 15. Open data • Reference data sets • EU Directive „re-use” • „Public information bulletin” (BIP in Polish) • City map • Open standards! 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 16. Citizens participation • Submitting information for Municipal Police, making use of city map 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 17. Toward open platform • Re-engineering of services needed (design for participation) • Map of cemetries • Portal databases (objects) • Mobile applications (tourists guides) 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services
- 18. Thank you! bartekel@man.poznan.pl 09.11.2010 FOSSa 2010, FLOSS-based municipal services