Wireless Council The Wireless Council strand has built on and developed existing e-government services from both the Council Offices on the Strand Road and the Council Chamber in Guildhall Street. In practical terms this has involved the provision of wireless infrastructure on both sites. As the Council offices are located adjacent to both the University and NWRC Campuses this, in effect, provides a seamless wireless network between the civic quarter on the riverside and the city’s ‘knowledge corridor’ extending from the riverside towards the border. Derry City Council has already provided all senior management and elected members with laptop computers enabling council business to be carried out electronically. The objective here is to allow enhanced, more flexible access to computing resources and the Internet in the designated areas. As a result of more council business being carried out electronically there has been cost savings in terms of staff time and reduction in paper wastage. As part of this element of the project Derry City Council piloted an Electronic Records and Document Management Systems (ERDMS). Under the Wireless Council element of the project equipment including Blackberry-type devices, Pocket PCs and Wireless enabled video cameras have been purchased for demonstration, training and testing purposes. For
further information on the Wireless Council Project, contact Dermot
Harrigan, Project Manager, 028 7137 6506; |
