www.i-coin.net - i-COIN, a project where the citizen gets the opportunity to influence the new e-government/e-services solutions. Part financed by EU (European Union) and BSR (Baltic Sea Region INTERREG III B).
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Solutions and results
The pilot is in use and working in the city of Kotka´s portal. User statistics has been collected sins the start up of the pilot.
After the launching press conference was held which brought lots of publicity and new users for the software. Also other marketing shapes were carrying out during the project.

Project included two created services: real estate database and laboratory booking system.
 
Real estate database: The layout of the portal is now good. It is simply to go there and find the way to the service. The layout is matched to be similar with rest of the municipality pages. Service is available at: http://palvelut.kotka.fi. Next print screen is from the pilot software. Picture is from a start page to the software.

Solutions and results, screen shot
Some extra services will be added to the service to improve it, but that will happen afterwards by the municipality administrator. The municipality will work with the service and develop it more.
On account of the project Kotka municipality haves more ways to serve citizens and new ways to attract business and support them.

Laboratory booking system: Other service created during the project was laboratory booking system. This software is not using i-Coin platform, but the health care authority had being cooperated with i-Coin project. One part of the project was to make comprehensive clarification of the needs in the area, and one result was that healthcare could take advantage of new e-services. For this reason laboratory booking system was developed. Service can be found from the pages:  Next picture is a screen shot of the laboratory booking service.

Solutions and results, screen shot 2
A through study and plan on how to carry on with the development of e-Health care have being done. The service will be developed further. In all the project was important steps in the e-Health development

One important output is a toolbox for helping authorities to setup new e-Services.
Project also produced new products and services for SMEs to market.

Learning and experiencing a "bottom-up" approach to citizens´ needs and requirements for e-Government/e-Services.

Updated: 2008-04-10