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By June 2001 there are four types of portals deployed by the local partners. Each portal type has several "channels". For example, if we talk about the Municipal VirtuHall, then there are several channels:
- Informed official
- Informed citizen
- Interactive citizen
The "locally branded portals" means that on a local level sometimes portals and channels are bundled. In the Hague, for example, the application "Residentie.Net" bundles "Informed Citizen", "Interactive Citizen", "Market Place" and "Interactive Culture Plaza". From the Municipal VirtuHalls it does not touch the "Informed Official", but it incorporates the full Business VirtuHalls portal.
Overall the design of the VirtuHalls is:
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Municipal VirtuHalls
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Business VirtuHalls
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Housing VirtuHalls
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Social Care VirtuHalls
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Generic Services
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Informed official
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Market Place
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Housing Channel
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Social Care Channel
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Enhanced Internet
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Informed citizen
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Interactive Culture Plaza
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Housing News
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Social Care News
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Enhanced TV
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(Inter)active citizen
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Conversion technology
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Surfing Happy Waves
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Not all cities report on all portals and channels. The following channels can be found:
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Municipal VirtuHalls
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Informed official
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Den Haag, Hamburg, Nice, Vienna
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Informed citizen
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Den Haag, Hamburg, Nice, Vienna
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(Inter)active citizen
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Den Haag, Hamburg, Nice, Vienna
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Business VirtuHalls
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Market Place
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Den Haag, Hamburg
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Interactive Culture Plaza
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Den Haag, Hamburg, Nice
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Housing VirtuHalls
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Housing Channel
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Den Haag, Hamburg, Vienna
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Interactive Culture Plaza
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Den Haag, Vienna
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Social Care VirtuHalls
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Social Care Channel
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Den Haag, Hamburg, Vienna
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Social Care News
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Den Haag, Vienna
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Generic Services
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Enhanced Internet
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Hamburg, Nice
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Enhanced TV
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Den Haag
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Conversion Technology
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Den Haag
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Surfing Happy Waves
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Den Haag, Nice
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Sometimes different (combined) channels with different URL seem to provide similar information in a city. Notably in Den Haag and Nice. This is because of the different usergroups that are targeted. As explained, the VirtuHalls© Technical Annex specifies under "Market Analysis" that:
These local markets could be addressed with service packages geared to the needs of "communities". Users of these communities will spend more time online than casual users.
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