National Portal for India
I don’t know if I’m the only Slaw reader who has to rattle around the Canadian or British Government sites to find what I’m looking for. It seems as if the new Conservative government was simply concerned to do a top level rebranding, but not to re-examine how the site actually worked.
Two developments today, one at Westminster and the other in Delhi.
The announcement in Delhi this morning that the new national portal will be based on open standards and multiple entry points.
For Canadian users who may not be fully familiar with the allocation of powers between the states and the centre, the portal also opens onto state materials.
The enhanced portal, based on open standards and with a service-oriented architecture, provides a single point of entry with a single sign-on to government information and services. The portal links users to about 5,000 websites in India, he added.
The portal has new features such as search and personalization, and localization of content to suit the diverse requirements of the country’s citizens. Users of mobile phones and other handheld devices with a browser and connection to the Internet can also access and transact business over the portal.
The portal, which uses IBM technologies and software, runs on hardware built around architecture from Intel and running the Linux operating system. “NIC has built the portal around open standards, as it does not want to be tied down in the long term to a single vendor”.
It makes Ottawa’s site look a little tame.
My mail from the Law Society asked the English profession to help redesign the Parliamentary website:
Help improve parliament’s website
If you’re a user of Parliament’s website, do you find it easy to use? The site is currently being upgraded and Law Society staff recently met the Managing Editor of the website to discuss the changes and what solicitors need from the redesign.
We put forward a number of suggestions for changing the site (some are already under consideration):
More use of documents in pdf form.
When speed is of the essence, replication of the paper version of the Parliamentary document is fine; but sometimes information needs to be in a form better suited to the web user.
Searching needs to be by topic or subject (eg food safety) rather than where the debate took place (eg Westminster Hall).
As far as possible, for legislation, there should be a page for every Bill, with hyperlinks to related documents such as draft SIs.
We would like to pass on the views of practitioners from different sizes/types of firms and practice areas. So if you would like to comment, please contact alison.plouviez@lawsociety.org.uk.
From what I can see the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seem to be further ahead
Jai Hind
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