CommunesPlone - Belgium, France

Over 75 Belgian and French local governments (communes and mairies) participate in the CommunesPlone project. In doing so, they aim to gain independence from IT services providers by developing, essentially by themselves and in a cooperative manner, applications and websites for their own use as well as for their citizens’.

Today, different modules are available : Intranet/Extranet, council management, online administrative documents requests, identification by electronic identity card, fine management or deliberation management.

• Contact person : Joël LAMBILLOTTE, Olivier SNICKERS, Xavier HEYMANS
• CommunesPlone applications list (French)

PloneGov - Switzerland

The PloneGov.ch foundation has been founded in April 2007. Members of the PloneGov.ch foundation are the Swiss Government, the Canton of Basel Stadt and two consulting companies. The goal of the foundation is to provide an eGovernment infrastructure based on Plone.

Today, modules for Web CMS, Intranet/Extranet, Records Management, and public forums are available. On May 30th, the first PloneGov.ch workshop will be held in Berne.

• Contact person : Bernhard BÜHLMANN
• PloneGov applications list (German)

Udalerria web plataforma - Spain and France

Udalerria web plataforma is an initiative started in the Basque Country. It aims at providing a suite of applications to local governments.

Some ZOPE Communal Site powered by CodeSyntax, Basque-Spanish, include one Basque-French site: Saint Pierre d'Irube (near Bayonne).

• Contact person : Eneko ASTIGARRAGA
• Codesyntax website

Bungeni - Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda

Bungeni is a Parliamentary and Legislative Information System for drafting, managing, consolidating and publishing legislative and other parliamentary documents. 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".

Bungeni is based on open standards (see www.akomantoso.org) and open source applications (Plone, Zope, OpenOffice.org and eXist) . It is an initiative supported by UNDESA's project "Africa i-Parliament Action Plan" (see www.parliaments.info) in collaboration with the Pan African parliament and European parliaments and universities. Bungeni is a collaborative software development initiative and it will be piloted 8 Parliaments in Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The National Assembly of Nigeria has also been supporting the project's activities.

• Contact person : Flavio ZENI
• Bungeni website
  

OpenGov - United States of America

The City of Newport News, Virginia, is offering the software that runs its web site as well as the knowledge base we created through the implementation process to any organization or individual, free of charge. City of Newport News and its so-called OpenGov project 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.
More information about the Plone products available, documentation, training material is available on the Open-Gov project site.

• Contact person : Andy Stein
• OpenGov website
  

Tabellio - Belgium

Tabellio 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.

An important goal of the project is to collaborate with similar projects to cover the functionalities, reusing, adapting, developing or co-developing generic components, to be distributed in GPL (or similar copyleft license).

• Contact person : Gaëtan Deberdt, Joël Tournemenne
• Tabellio website
  

Health Atlas - Ireland

A project from the Health Service Executive (HSE), Health Atlas Ireland has been developed to bring health related datasets, statistical tools and GIS together in a web environment to add value to existing health data. Health Atlas Ireland enables controlled access to maps, data and analyses for service planning and delivery, major incident response, epidemiology and research to improve the health of patients, their families and the population.

It is a joint HSE and academic initiative. In the absence of an off-the-shelf solution, a new system was designed and developed. Health Atlas Ireland enables “joined up thinking” within and between agencies. The open source design has international potential.

• Contact persons: Howard Johnson and Mel McIntyre
• Health Intelligence website

Other Plone eGov based initiatives

Interlegis (Brazil)

The Interlegis portal goal is to reduce distance between the Brazil legislative state chambers, which form a virtual community. Interlegis provides Plone based solutions to support the legislative processes: a model portal for the Legislative assembly and SAAP an integrated system that optimizes the parliamentary activities.