Web portals

Description:
Websites providing a gateway to a set of specific information and applications. Often based on a Web Content Management System.

eParticipation areas:

• Campaigning
• Community building / Collaborative Environments
• Consultation
• Deliberation
• Discourse
• Electioneering
• Information Provision
• Mediation
• Polling
• Spatial planning
• Voting

Stage policy cycle: Relevant to all stages where stakeholders need to be informed about policy issues.


Specials:
For the portal itself this is not usually applicable as they are open to all users, however applications they point to may require user registration


Channel:
Some portals offer special access for mobile phones (over wap) besides that through PCbrowser.

Technology:

• Content mangement
• Web application
• Knowledge management and knowledge engineering

Evaluation:
Number of visits, the length of time a user stays o the portal, number of repeat visits, number of sites linked, number of available applications

Additions:
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/ www.direct.gov.uk http://www.workwithus.org/ http://www.nordpol.dk/ http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/index_en.htm