T-Gov EXPO Spring 2007 18 th & 19 th April Ian Wiebkin – Kirklees Metropolitan Council
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T-Gov EXPO Spring 200718th & 19th April
Ian Wiebkin – Kirklees Metropolitan Council
• Formally the DigiTV National Project – sponsored by ODPM
• Now owned and managed by Kirklees Metropolitan Council (not for profit)
• DigiTV Starter Kit – ‘microsite’, static content, forms and questionnaires
• 3 Channels:
- Digital Television (SKY, Virgin TV (ntl:Telewest), limited Freeview
- Mobile Phones (launch point from 3 Mobile)
- Kiosks (CitySpace)
• Available to any LA or other public sector body
• Nearly 80 Local Authorities to date
• Over 600,000 hits a month
Our History
Our consumer facing brands:
Our Brands
Our customer (LA) facing brand
• Interactive TV and Mobile gives us the opportunity to provide real time links to external computer systems. These can be developed by the microsite owner, external 3rd party Plugin Partners or DigiTV:
• Jobcentre Plus – Jobsearch
• Transport Direct – Train and bus departures, arrivals and travel news
• e-MIS - GP Appointment Booking
• ACIS – ‘YourNextBus’ for individual bus stops from GPS information
• Abritas - Choice based letting, browsing and bidding
• Truancy Call - educational e-Mentoring
• Napier - e-Petitioning
• MediaCorp - PC and library item booking and renewal
• Avon & Somerset Police & Herts Direct - CMS integration
Some examples …
Plugins
Jobcentre Plus - Jobsearch
ACIS – GPS Bus Timetable
Napier – e-Petitioner
GP Appointments
Abritas - Choice Based Lettings
CMS Integration
Peter Bridger, from Avon and Somerset Police –
“Within two working days I had finished development of seven plug-ins that link into the various systems and live information available from our website.
I'm proud to have extended our services onto digital TV in a way that it will automatically keep them up to date without any further time or effort.
Development was very straight forwards and rewarding, I found it a nice break from working on more elaborate systems.”
Forget ‘TV & Mobile’ for a moment ….
• It’s an easy way for two computers to transact
• A plugin is a simple web application that ‘speaks’ XML rather than HTML
• You can forget about normal concerns of a web application like
Colours
Themes
Layouts
….. the DigiTV Starter Kit handles all of these for each Channel.
• You just have to decide on content, simple links and menu buttons
• A plugin can be developed and hosted by the Plugin Partner or DigiTV
So what exactly is a Plugin?
Looking Local Service on TV or Mobile
How does a plugin work?
3rd Party Computer
The plugin can be developed and hosted by the Plugin Partner or DigiTV
Button selected
XML ‘hello’ over HTTP
Plugin ‘communicates’ with backend system (via
SOAP, J/ODBC, …)
XML response conforming to DigiTV standards (schema)
New screen displayed
DigiTV Starter Kit
(Presentation)
3rd Party Starter Kit
Plugin
(Workflow)
3rd Party System
(Transactions)
Looking Local Service on TV or Mobile
3rd Party Computer
Button selected
New screen rendered
New screen rendered
Button selected
How does a plugin work?
DigiTV Starter Kit
(Presentation)
3rd Party System
(Transactions)
3rd Party Starter Kit
Plugin
(Workflow)
The plugin can be developed and hosted by the Plugin Partner or DigiTV
Looking Local Service on TV or Mobile
3rd Party Computer
Button selected
XML response
XML response conforming to DigiTV standards (schema)
New screen rendered
New screen displayed
Button selected
How does a plugin work?
DigiTV Starter Kit
(Presentation)
3rd Party System
(Transactions)
3rd Party Starter Kit
Plugin
(Workflow)
The plugin can be developed and hosted by the Plugin Partner or DigiTV
Plugin ‘communicates’ with backend system (via
SOAP, J/ODBC, …)
Looking Local Service on TV or Mobile
3rd Party Computer
Plugin can be hosted by the Plugin Partner or DigiTV
Button selected
New screen rendered
How does a plugin work?
DigiTV Starter Kit
(Presentation)
3rd Party System
(Transactions)
3rd Party Starter Kit
Plugin
(Workflow)
What benefits for Plugin Partners?
• Limited development costs
• Short development and implementation timescales
• You can offer aspects of your service via additional channels:
iDTV
Mobile
Kiosk
• Competitive edge over your competition
• Additional revenue stream
• Perception of innovation and forward thinking
• Public and industry awareness - previous Plugin Partners have been featured in:
National Newspapers
BBC TV and radio including video clips on the BBC website
‘e-Gov publications’
How do I start?
• Do you provide Local Authorities with a customer service?
• It needs to be ‘suitable’ for TV and Mobile
• We provide:
Comprehensive documentation
Appropriate help and advice
Other useful resources, such as a Wiki and a developers’ forum
Test environments
QA Review
• You need to provide:
A developer
Limited documentation
Testers
• Contact me!
Ian WiebkinTechnical Manager
email: [email protected]: www.digitv.gov.uk
mob: 07981 520981office: 020 8306 0543
Any Questions?