A citizen network is a computer system that offers the citizens of a village or a town an easy access to local information. The new technologies allow to implement new channels of communication in social, economical, political and cultural areas. This will play an important role in our society. It is essential to offer the access to this information to every member of the society, if he or she desires it.
The primary objective of a citizen network is to offer electronic communication ways to its members to strengthen the community and its social life, to increase the participation in the democratic process and to offer all citizens the possibility to participate in the information society.
Such a system can be implemented with the help of computer systems that are connected with the help of telephone lines to a central computer.
The present project CITIZENET® Rosport aims to implement a citizen network in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. This first preparatory phase of the project has the objectives:
A second phase aims to exploit these results to define a project which will implement a full-working network in real-life.
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The
Prototype was done by two students (Michel Loos & Patrick Horsmans) of the
Institut Supérieur de Technologie (IST) in their diploma work. The
language of the prototype is German and Luxembourgish !
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