CivicLife.com Inc. Launches Civic Portal Application for 'Smart' Communities.Business Editors REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000 CivicLife.com Interprise one of the first to address need for cross-jurisdictional civic and community service delivery. CivicLife.com, Inc., one of the early leaders in pioneering 'single window' civic portal applications, today announced the launch of CivicLife.com Interprise, a web-based application See Web application. which offers all of the software and content components necessary to helping 'smart' communities deploy fully-branded, 'one-stop' portal destinations for their citizens. 'Smart community' refers to a collaborative effort between the core sectors of a community -- government, education, healthcare, business, social services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales -- who, together with industry partners, capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. latest information technologies in order to strengthen their economic, social and cultural development. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Global Foundation for Smart Communities, it is estimated that over 50,000 cities worldwide are beginning to embrace such 'smart' initiatives. CivicLife.com Interprise was conceived to fulfill the need for a central portal application that can successfully deliver information and services from across all sectors of a community through a cohesive, cross-jurisdictional online gateway. "To date, the market has been flooded with 'portal silo' solutions that only cater to one facet of a community, usually government services alone. These applications have proven to be too narrowly-focused for a smart community's needs," said Kevin Higgins, CivicLife.com's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Through CivicLife.com Interprise's 'single window' portal platform, 'smart' communities have the freedom to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. a portal solution that encompasses the entire spectrum of their community's core offerings in a citizen-centric manner." The inherent flexibility of CivicLife.com Interprise also lends itself as a viable solution to communities' desire to foster local economic development, added Higgins. "With the growth of e-Commerce, consumers are now able to easily shop for goods outside of their community, which is essentially 'hollowing out' local economies, particularly in small towns," he said. "CivicLife.com Interprise can be configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: to include a marketplace component in which businesses could effectively market themselves to targeted audiences, thus keeping revenues within the community." Available 'out of the box', CivicLife.com Interprise enables civic organizations to create and deploy information and services Channels, map information to the geographic area or community to which it relates, animate e-democracy and citizen collaboration vehicles, and select desired content from other civic entities, such as federal and state governments, for true cross-jurisdictional delivery. Built-in integration capabilities permit civic organizations to leverage existing web investments, such as current websites, thereby minimizing costs. The unveiling of CivicLife.com Interprise is the first in a series of major launches over 2001 that will round out the company's complete civic portal application strategy, said Higgins. About CivicLife.com: CivicLife.com, Inc. is dedicated to realizing its vision of a "Citizen-Centric Civic World" by harnessing the Internet to enable personal, real-time interactions between citizens and their civic institutions. Headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000. with a development office in Ottawa, Canada, CivicLife.com is focused on developing civic portal applications that can offer citizens a complete 'one-stop' avenue to their entire civic world, and is leveraging this objective through critical alliances with SilverStream Software, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Oracle Corporation. |
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