Contactivity cross-media solutions

Contactivity assisted Sanoma Learning & Literature in developing their intranet.

Contactivity developed a website for TIN, the Dutch Theatre Institute, in 2007. This multilingual website includes a customized webshop, and makes extensive use of the object relation browse datatype to manage the homepage and landing pages. Contactivity has been taking care of the technical maintenance of the content management system since 2009.

In 2006 Contactivity assisted UNESCO-IHE in developing a new conceptual frame for its web presence and subsequently developed its website. In the following years, Contactivity developed various additional custom-made applications and helped in the technical maintenance of the content management system.
The website was redesigned in 2011.

We created the 'Programmavergelijker' for IPP for the 2010 Dutch House of Representatives elections. The website was completely built on eZ Publish and can be maintained using this content management system as well. This CMS also makes it possible to generate party programmes and search by subject. Users can do a scan the information to discover which political party's views are closest to theirs.

The Broker offers knowledge of global development issues and contributes to evidence-based policy making and action by encouraging exchanges between knowledge producers, policy makers and professionals. The Broker is a reliable source of information for all those concerned with development and globalization, especially in the fields of inclusive economy, food security, global commons, human security and civil society.

ICT Update, a magazine with an associated website and e-mail newsletter, is published six times a year, in both English and French. ICT Update focuses on ICTs and other new technologies for development and is widely distributed for free among professionals and policy makers in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Contactivity helped NOREF with the conceptualization of its new website, facilitated the graphic design and built the actual website.

The Hivos website makes extensive use of social media tools developed by Contactivity. The custom-made adds-on include user profiles, blogs, notifications and (social) bookmarking, personalized homepages, integration with YouTube and Flickr, a function to import and invite new users, jabber integration for site reports via a chat client. The site also features a payment gateway extension to allow Dutch users to make their donations via the Dutch banking system iDEAL. Contactivity continues to help Hivos expand this website's functionality and maintain the content management system.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME) chose the eZ publish content management system for the renewal of its European, Middle Eastern and African websites. The websites feature five languages, integration with a dealer locator in Japan, Google search, integration with a mailing system and an extranet for dealers. Hitachi Construction Machinery and Scient, both located in Japan, provided the graphic guidelines and guidance for the HCME website. Agency.com -- in cooperation with eZ publish specialist Contactivity -- was responsible for the content management system configuration and implementation. BIT.nl hosts the websites. The launch of the renewed website yielded in increased traffic, the build up of an email database and a higher search engine ranking.

Implementation:
Agency.com ( http://www.agency.com );
Contactivity ( http://www.contactivity.com ).

HCME chose the eZ Publish content management system for the renewal of its Russian website. The website features integration with a dealer locator in Japan and Google search. Hitachi Construction Machinery and Scient, both located in Japan, provided the graphic guidelines and guidance for the Russian HCME website.

ISS is an international graduate school of policy-oriented critical social science. It brings together students and teachers from the Global South and the North in a European environment. Established in 1952 as the International Institute of Social Studies by Dutch universities and the Netherlands Ministry of Education it does research, teaching and public service in the field of development studies and international cooperation.

The LabforCulture.org portal is an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). The site aims to facilitate cultural dialogue, exchange and cooperation across physical, cultural and imaginative borders between 48 countries in the broader Europe and beyond.

LabforCulture.org is a fully interactive portal for all those involved in arts and culture who create, collaborate, share and produce across borders in Europe. The portal provides a vast source of online information, debate and research on European cultural cooperation. It features multiple languages, a personalised space (MyLabforCulture), integration with an external search engine (Lucene), community groups, blogs, forums and tools to add and manage new content.

Contactivity ( http://www.contactivity.com ) was responsible for the configuration and implementation of the content management system and the portal functionality.