Work procedure
We created the local Steering Group for the project activities in the earliest beginning of the project (the first months) and explain to them the project aim and activities and make the plan for whole project time. Steering Group consisted of the members of the Council, the members of the Board, civil servants, local authorities and entrepreneurs. We invited to the group as much experts and politicians as it possible. The 100% participation in every SG meeting is not possible, because someone cannot come. But it is necessary to discuss about project activities and send the memos to all SG members. If there are some persons, who would like to participate in SG, we gave them this possibility, because they are very good experts for the project. We added new member to SG all the time. 
 
The first e-Services have developed by demand from the municipality personnel. Tamsalu municipality bough the hardware for municipality hall and other municipal organisations and developed the first e-services for organising the contemporary and effective leadership inside the municipality as the organisation.
 
Beside the Steering Group we created the working group, which consisted of 3 members:
  
  • Leading, information collecting - Katrin Tirman (coordinator with the contract).
  • Researches, list, structure of the website — Katrin Uudeküll (with the contract).
  • Webmaster — Erkki Lepp (with the contract) — worked out the system (his own, new!), developed the website like we want.  
The coordinator and project team leaded the project activities:
 
  • The first research of user panel groups. We continue with the research of e-services development system among municipal personnel, politicians, local authorities and citizens. The deeper research is more effective for municipal work.
  • The project team has filled the database of the needs of target groups. It is quite interesting that the most of the list (included all target groups) members are very active in researching process and they are interested in developing e-service system in municipality.
  • During the research we interviewed all target groups members, including Vajangu School, Kindergarden, Youth Center and Library, local authorities like Tamsalu Kommunaal LA ja Tamsalu RMK, Sääse Social Center, Tamsalu Cultural Center and Sports Complex, Assamalla Library, Porkuni Limestone Museum etc.
  • During the last period we also completed the existing list with new members and made the evaluation among list members. Most of the members though that the information exchanging is much better now, because they have all information about the trainings, seminars, events, competitions etc via e-mail personally.
  • The seminars for target groups has done. The objectives of the seminars were to inform target groups about the researches and new possibilities as much as it done and found out their opinions about the developing e-service system in municipality.
  • The project team has come together many times for discussing i-COIN activities.
  • Intensive work with new website of Tamsalu Municipality.
  • Our webmaster started with working out different kind of solutions for the website and e-services, programming etc. Before or website was done in Mambo, which is very bad example. Now they use their own program and it works good.
  • The design for the website. Our working group argued about it a long. Horisontal menu vs vertical menu etc.
  • Collecting the totally new data and pictures for each subjects. Putting together the application forms for the website, as it will be e-service.
  • Intensive communication with every working group member.
Updated: 2008-04-10