Communities a virtual Success Print E-mail
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Monday, 23 May 2005

ImageThe Community & Enterprise and IT Section of Meath County Council, with support from Meath County Development Board, operate a "Communities Online Together" scheme which lets all community & voluntary groups in County Meath have their own website.

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The award was presented by An Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Bertie Ahern
Under this innovative scheme, which recently won an Eircom Innovation Through Technology Award, local community groups are given space on the county council’s website. Each group is then provided training and support to create their own Mambo Powered website.

 â€œThe Communities Online Together project was a great opportunity for us to learn about open source,â€? says John Lawlor, head of information systems. “We used Lamp (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) architecture for the websites and Mambo as the content management system. We developed templates that we were able to push out to the groups.â€?

View the list of community websites already online

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