Government Technology - Manchester City Council wins website award

Manchester City Council wins website award

Manchester City Council (MCC) has won the BT Online Excellence award for the best local council web site in Britain, representing a landmark in the Council's transformation agenda. MCC's online service strategy is a key component of the Council's transformation agenda which is being delivered through the Manchester Improvement Programme (MIP).

To deliver this programme, MCC has developed an enterprise wide strategy for delivering online services, providing a platform that reflects the City of Manchester's status across the world, as one of the UK's major centres of finance, commerce, retail, culture and leisure.

The solution adopted is based on a new range of Web 2.0 products and consisted of Jadu CMS; Jadu Rupa for Google Enterprise Search and the Jadu Galaxies Server WCMS delivery platform. The development and implementation of the website has been rapid with it being live online within six weeks.

After only six months, MCC is already seeing significant quantifiable benefits, with major progress being made in implementing the transformational agenda.

MCC's recent recognition at the BT Online Excellence Awards demonstrates the high level of user satisfaction being achieved, placing MCC's web site in the same league as Google, Amazon and the BBC.

Leader of Manchester City Council, Councilor Richard Leese said: "Our website combines a good mix of news and information with a range of services that people can access and order online. We use our website as one of the vital channels to make contact with and to hear from our communities, so we are delighted to receive this award."

www.btonlineexcellence.com
www.manchester.gov.uk

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