Internet

The Internet module provides Councils with extraction facilities to copy selected E-GENDA data from the Intranet machine to a separate sub-set E-GENDA system on an Internet machine outside the Council’s firewall. Only public data is taken; Exempt Reports are never copied across. For a selection of Committees, any Agendas issued or Minutes published since the last update are copied to the public site. In addition, the latest Forward Plan, Members database, newly-published Decisions, Register of Interests and recent additions to the searchable archive of Minutes are also copied across. The selection programs run automatically as scheduled.

Display programs more suitable for such limited public access are also provided; these are WAI (AA) compliant.

The Internet module enables Councils to provide a complete guarantee of security for their network information as there is no external connection. Normally, only copies of public data ever reside on the second site but if some exempt information is required (e.g. for Members) then this may also be transferred and made secure by password access.

These facilities satisfy Priority Outcome R5.