Digital services for the Municipality of Enschede
Web forms and services for one of the first Dutch municipalities to offer digital services to residents, including a reporting service that showed residents their property-tax information.
- Client
- Municipality of Enschede
- Period
- 2005 – 2006 · 2008 – 2009
- Sector
- Local government
- Role
- Software Engineer, Designer, Contractor through Atos Origin
In 2001 Enschede was one of the first Dutch municipalities to introduce digital services for its residents, which grew into a website with more than a hundred forms, services and information pages.
In a team of two engineers, five functional designers and a team leader, I developed and maintained these products: web forms, and the transfer of the entered data to the municipality’s databases and programs. I also helped build a large reporting service that let residents see the tax information for their house.
We delivered a first set of these services to another municipality, and its success led to a larger project for a generic solution for municipalities across the Netherlands.
I worked for the municipality twice as a contractor through Atos Origin: from February 2005 to February 2006, and again from September 2008 to January 2009.
Key challenges
- Over a hundred forms, services and information pages, each feeding different municipal databases and programs.
- Combining data from several databases into one view for residents.
Architecture highlights
- A reporting service that extracted data from several municipal databases and exposed it on the website.
Stack
- ASP.NET
- Visual Basic
- SQL
- XML
- XSLT
- HTML
