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Online networking and strategic planning for public sector managers

By TJ (21-02-2008)
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An innovative online facility has been launched to help public sector managers and professionals with networking and strategic planning.

With funding from the Kent Improvement Partnership, Kent Connects has recently developed information sharing portals for a number of officer groups and networks across Kent and Medway.  Now these have been joined in a collaboration to link up on-line networks in a central, accessible place.  Nicknamed the ‘portal of portals’ www.kentconnects.gov.uk is a central hub sitting between the different, specialist, information sharing portals.

The individual portals were only recently introduced as a tool to support joint working between officers working in different authorities and organisations.  Fifteen portals are so far up and running, each providing an online calendar of meetings and events, links to agendas and reports, and facilities such as on-line discussion forums and email alerts.

Now the new ‘portal of portals’ provides a single point of access to each specialist portal, as well as combining diary dates and meeting papers onto a central calendar. 

Dominic MacDonald-Wallace, Programme Manager of KIP explains: “This central hub serves as a vantage point - a ‘birds eye view’ of all the various activities being undertaken.  For a Chief Executive or senior manager planning ahead with limited resources this can be extremely useful – helping them to stay abreast of progress, prevent duplication of effort and exploit new ideas and opportunities.”

Debbie Wisdom is Strategic Director at Kent Connects, now Kent and Medway’s leading technology partnership.  “This simple, practical and affordable application of technology behind the scenes is helping Kent and Medway’s public sector professionals to improve the quality and efficiency of public services.”

 

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