Spanish Senate

Modernization and closer relationships

The Spanish Senate needed to enhance the communication and transparency of the work carried out by Senators, Parliamentary Groups and Bodies of the Chamber through its website. To do this, they needed to:

1. To offer reliable, exhaustive, and updated information on the activities and functions carried out in the Chamber, guaranteeing the quality, interoperability, and reuse of the data.
2. To bring the institution closer to citizens, presenting the activity of the Senate in an understandable and attractive way, as well as to facilitate access to the services that the Chamber makes available to them.
3. To facilitate citizen participation, through communication channels such as (blog, Social Media, personal pages, and forms for sending messages to senators and committees) that senators and parliamentary groups deem appropriate to activate and maintain.

Until now, the lack of homogeneity on the website and the technological gap that we found in comparison with other portals, added to the lack of interaction through Social Media or Web 2.0 features, turned the platform of this institution into an unnavigable labyrinth.

A complex solution, a simple navigation.

After analysing the digital needs of this institution, we proposed a solution based on the Oracle UCM content management software, but also including two sets of programs: JSP’s (Java J2EE), developed by VASS, and PL / SQL packages, developed by the Senate, to access the information stored in its databases.

A complex digital solution that structures the information in four large blocks: Parliamentary activity, composition and organization, getting to know  the Senate and relations with citizens, which can be navigated from the home page, with an abundance of graphic elements and a simple navigation structure, only possible thanks to the great coordination between the two jobs performed by the successful bidder and the Senate technicians.