CONSEN Euro-Group a European Cooperative Society of Information Technologies
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CONSEN Euro-Group is a Grouping of European SMEs who have agreed to cooperate as Euro-Cluster in Information Society Technologies projects, tenders and business throughout Europe. CONSEN (Coordinate Open Neural info-Space of European Network e-centers) has been the society for information professionals and micro-companies leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information and communication. CONSEN is a non-profit, independent and international consulting firm constituted in November of 2004 in Barcelona. CONSEN aims to maximize socio-economic benefits acting Pro-Information Society and Open Technologies. The companies are all experts in Open-Source Software, Contents, Standards, Infrastructures and Information Society Technologies. A member of CONSEN Partners network Grouping owns a shares and pays an annual fee and receives benefits in four major areas: research and innovation, marketing and promotion, network building, and organization. CONSEN is a European OS/IST Cluster built with the networking methodologies and competences of our partners.
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The main objective of the CONSEN (EEIG) is to establish an ongoing and effective dialogue between members focused on Research, Development, Innovation and Business of Open Technological Solutions for Information and Communication at European level. CONSEN brings together diverse areas and streams of knowledge, focusing what might be disparate approaches into novel and operative solutions to common problems in Information Society Technologies. CONSEN bridges the gaps not only between disciplines but also between the research that drives and the practices that sustain new developments. CONSEN aims to function as the focal point for partners wishing to work inside the EU and for the EU.The CONSEN partner's commitment maximizes the Socio-Economic benefits of CONSEN activities. The CONSEN member's strategy is to share resources and assets, to exploit and manage the network competencies of their members with synergic effect.
The partnership of CONSEN is focused on growing open source business and solutions by pooling resources for collective actions in Consulting; Marketing and Business, in three Layers: Research and Innovation projects, Tenders and Bids and IST join Brochure for Technological Business. CONSEN is evolving to a cooperative society to enhance the exploitation of the partners competences and the building of a fair market, trade in Open Source technologies. |
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Consensuality is the active collaboration for the pleasure and well-being of all concerned. |
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CONSEN concerns the Open-Source philosophy: software, contents, standards, protocols and infrastructures, to generate open technological solutions for open business which is, by definition, an Open-Door to the cooperation, to the partnership and thus to the networking success |
CONSEN offers a wide range of services on Innovation & Technology Policy and Development projects for organizations such as the European Commission, National and Regional European Authorities and the Public and Private Sector. CONSEN works with a wide variety of communications Open-Source and Interoperable tools ranging networking organizational websites development to public relations. |
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The CONSEN objectives are to present and carry out innovative initiatives and projects in IST, trying to maximize the quality and the socio-economic benefits, in the following areas:
Amazing techniques and technologies evolve daily in the fields of information science, communication, and networking technologies. Yet as isolated groups, information professionals in one field often are insulated from developments in others. CONSEN is the professional society that bridges the gap between the diverse needs of researchers, developers, practitioners and end users, and between the challenge and opportunities associated with emerging technologies and applications and in particular in networking cooperation. |
 CONSEN personnel consists of experts and associates with specializations in the areas of Technology Policy, Innovation Management, IT & Telecommunications, Investments, Business Management, Economic Analysis & Planning, Regional Development, Communication and Law.
CONSEN grouping's acts as extension of the company internal organization, fostering cooperation and transferring technology, innovation and knowledge. CONSEN facilitates them to acquire and put into practice new technologies, cooperate with research institutes to develop systems and application in response to industrial demand of creation of new markets, new business models and new profit centres. |
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| For Research and Innovation CONSEN coordinates communications activities from diverse projects, networks and communities creating the 'Competence of Excellence Synergies', managing the organisation of workshops and annual events, hosting websites, distributing news-letters, creating publications, building communiities and animating Information and Communication spaces. |
The aim of the CONSEN grouping is to support organizations and businesses in the EU in responding more efficiently to the challenges of the new economy and the internationalized competitive environment. CONSEN business is pan-European, crafted with our national members. We have native speakers in-house and can tap into our international network of 10 agencies in 8 European countries.
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WEKOMS type 3 Virtual enterprises diverse companies sharing resources, tasks (many points of decision) and a common business, legal and strategic framework. This model needs as for type2 plus accepted rules for internal projects, financing, legal and realization. All activities that may be required by a set of people or machines, which communicate and interact with each other as well as with the outside "environment", in order to achieve a common, technical or economical, goal and/or perform a task together, in/dependent of the organisational and/or geographical location of these people or machines. |
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About the WEKOMS platform<!-- START ITEM 3 --> WEKOMS is an Open Source (OS) and has been developed using state-of-the-art technology, based on the Drupal (FOSS) Content Management System and Communities Framework Manager. It is a CONSEN grouping initiative founded by private investment and promoted internationally in a cooperative effort of the members inthe last four years. Organizations served by WEKOMS include the own CONSEN Euro-Group, as international non-profit organisations, carrying out research and technological development and innovation projects in Information Open Technologies. The size and features of CONSEN is similar a Small-Medium-Enterprises (SMEs) working in a international level. |
WEKOMS allows the implementation of a wide spectrum of knowledge management applications for modern distributed organizations. It offers in a set of modules - around one hundred - Management Tools, addressing most of the working requirements of users, team-works and companies, sharing a common information and communication environment, operative rules and procedures and business models. The WEKOMS Cooperative Platform was developed using a CLUSTERING MODEL in order to provide distributed organisations a "common habitat" on which various work-teams and special interetsed groups composed by voluntaries or workers, particpants or member of the organisation (e.g. staff, partners, clients, suppliers, etc.) can co-work with the maximum knowledge outcomes and benefits. |
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The whole WEKOMS environment divides its resources into biological habitats where groups and users interact.The Participants has a Individual Profile, which defines his access rights for each resource, service, area and habitat, including access to specific actions, sections and/or services. The Participant Profile defines the level of privacy for accessing to the Personal and Private Information (PAPI). Furthermore, the profile provide a Standard Taxonomy of Competences supporting any profiling, seraching and matching advanced process.
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WEKOMS.com provides on-line full services supporting the knowledge exchanged by users, groups and organizations. Furthermore, it is fully equipped with business models and knowledge management features. It fulfils the increasing need for a powerful, flexible, reliable and user friendly cooperative environment INFO-SPACE. It enables a given community (committee, working group, project group, etc.), geographically distributed, to maintain a private space on the Internet, for sharing and archiving documents, organising online discussions, meetings and benefiting from all its other functionality. WEKOMS provides s multilingual environment, supporting language habitats and personalization of the participants, data and services. |
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Generally speaking, the core WEKOMS services are the following:
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To report a problem or ask for technical support with regard to WEKOMS.com please send e-mail to CONSEN (@) CONSEN.org |
The WEKOMS.com website is Static Brochure and Showroom of the WEKOMS product and services. ecentres.net is an advanced and operative demonstration of all full features in evolution for the management of the projects, the community of users and the CONSEN dis |
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