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After we had the funding and attendant partners (Kymenlaakso health care authority, city of Kotka, several SMEs), we had to make next procedures - To find project leader and afterwards rest of the project team. In the end five regular employees and some temporary employees worked on the project
- Study of targets: Finding out the need of the area, which services have demands, what would be the best target to develop. To find this out several interviews and negotiations were held with different authors.
Viewing the targets and clarifying where we want to go. Agreement of what will be developed. - Planning the platform: what is needed to cover every partners and our needs, who will implement the platform, who can answer to our needs most comprehensive. Finding out partner organisations, who will work with the platform; ICT Solution provider Propentus Ltd. and Nitro FX.
- Finding out the needs: Carry out a questioning for citizens and find out their needs. Finding out the needs of the authors and clarify that those will meet out targets. Sort out what services will help the area most and what services can bring most added value. Result: area had demand for e-services that could ease some processes and bring cost-benefit advantages.
- Implementation of the platform and marketing: Platform was built by ICT solution provider Propentus Ltd. from Kouvola. Platform was built by demands of the partners. Several press releases of the upcoming platform were published in regional newspapers (Kymen Sanomat, Ankkuri etc.) and when the platform was in use, more press releases were published. Also some other marketing tactics were carrying out during the project.
- Installation: platform was installed to city of Kotkas´ server by Propentus Ltd. City of Kotka is acting as administrator of the software and taking care of the development and improvements.


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