This article describes the e-Catalunya project which is an experience
that has taken place in Catalonia (Spain) consisting in developing,
setting up and using a social network platform to improve collaboration
and knowledge management between professional collectives that work on
public services related areas.
As a result of the project, an open source platform has been obtained,
the ECAT platform, which supports different kind of communities with a
highly configurable level of privacy. The platform offers a set of
collaboration tools and a powerful administration environment that makes
it easy to configure it to suit the different collectives' needs.
Since 2005 it is reachable at ecatalunya.gencat.net . It is considered
as an innovative service being a key element in the strategy of the
Catalan government towards providing web 2.0 based services in order to
improve the transparency of administration and government and to
increase participation of citizens.
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