By Andy McCue, 2 August 2006 16:05
NEWS
The Department for Transport (DfT) is to spend £1.2m on a project to build a single technology platform for 30 of its public-facing websites.
The project is aiming to cut costs through rationalising the infrastructure behind the various disparate websites as well as improving the accuracy of the data and information in the public domain.
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The new content management system will reduce bottlenecks by allowing DfT contributors and editors to publish information directly to the websites without having to engage with technical staff.
Neil Campbell, head of e-communications at the DfT, said the department's websites are currently managed by a hugely devolved and skill-varied staff.
He said in a statement: "We have been looking for a way to tie our existing online strategy together within a single environment but at the same time give ourselves a good basis from which we can grow in years to come."
The application and services will be deployed in a managed service environment by Verizon using Morello content management software from Mediasurface.
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