The Challenge
To develop an easily managed and secure
extranet to improve communications amongst the professional
community of 900 economists working in 30 government departments
and agencies across the UK.
The Solution
Commissioned by the Government Economics
Service, we provided a content-managed extranet, supporting the
required easy update on a daily basis by non-technical authors
within GES. To ensure contact details for members are kept
current, we developed a members directory, maintained by individual
GES members managing their own details as well as departmental
managers providing overall management.
The Results
With 13,000 page requests per month, the
extranet is a key resource to GES members, facilitating job moves
and career development within the service and allowing economists
in government to keep up to date with policy developments, and to
share information and best practice. The self-managed members
directory ensures that, despite the considerable movement of
economists in government, up to date contacts for all GES members
are available.