Drupal

ATiT are leading a training course in Sierra Leone from 22 to 24 June on the new interactive web service that has been designed for the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA). Built using Drupal, this site allows experts to register their company and activities and make themselves available for parterships inside and outside the country. It also allows SLIEPA staff to provide information, business intelligence and connections to help local businesses grow and to contribute to the economic growth of Sierra Leone.

A small team from ATiT spent the week of 20th April in Freetown, Sierra Leone, working with the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) to prepare for the creation of a content driven web site and intranet, including the necessary training to operate the website in the future.

This service will target both companies from within Sierra Leone as well as potential foreign investors and will be used to help drive the economy forward by identifying international markets for products from Sierra Leone as well as finding investors to work with companies in Sierra Leone.

The site will be built using DRUPAL as the Content Management System and will be available in June 2009.

ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN conference organisers, ICWE, launched their MyOEB sevice this week for participants. This service, built by ATiT making use of the Drupal framework, allows participants to create their own personal agenda. Given the range of choices available, MyOEB means that participants can prepare a plan for themselves based on their own objectives and interests as a way to get the most out of what has become the largest global e-learning conference for the corporate, education and public service sectors. ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN takes place from 3-5 December.

ATiT offers web site and web application development to their customers and we find ourselves using Drupal more and more lately. Drupal is an open-source content management system and framework that can be modularly extended by either third party or custom written software modules. It has gathered a large following of users and developers around the world and is getting bigger all the time.

Last year, we created the Fortis Coaching Game, a serious game based learning tool for bank managers. Development could be brought right up to speed by using Drupal as an underlying framework, cutting down on development time and costs and offering a solid code base at the same time. This web site, the ATiT site v3, is also powered by Drupal. It only contains a small amount of custom coding; most functionality used here is present in Drupal core or by freely available third party modules.

If you want to learn more about Drupal, please visit www.drupal.org. You can of course always contact us for further enquiries.