Category:
Culture
Location:
Western Europe (for now ...)
Summary:
iEurope.biz allows one to search for phone numbers (white and yellow pages), and other information (weather, stocks, transportation so far ...) in 17 countries (so far ...) in Europe, in one common easy website / language / input / output formats.
Vision, objectives and goals:
Mashup (from Wikipedia): “… a mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service”.
As Europe moves towards one country, and Europeans tend to their business in several European countries (e.g. live in the UK, work in Germany, party in Denmark, shop in France and vacation in Italy), there is a need for pan-European information centers (just as they have in the US): telephone directories, stock quotes, weather, transportation, education, work, sports, entertainement, work, singles, etc.
This website, ieurope.biz, strives to do just that: By tapping into existing websites, it overcomes the different websites, languages, input and output to present a one-stop / one-format information center.
To date ieurope.biz covers some 17 countries in Western Europe, and offers only a few services (phone directories (both white and yelow pages), weather, stocks and transportation), but the goal is to expand both (number of countries and sevices).
Still, it is the only website where you can look up your family name in all (western) European countries at once, or look for, say, 'scuba' or 'casino', in all those country's yellow pages at once.
The role of ICT:
It is surprising that there are so few pan-European websites - perhaps it is difficult to get all these countries to cooperate on information and website formats and conventions.
ieurope.biz overcomes this difficulty by tapping into EXISTING websites.
As ieurope.biz displays information from current sites, it is always up-to-date.
Target groups and impact:
Anybody who needs to find a person or business (or weather or stock quotes, etc.) in Europe would find this site useful - saves you the bother of, say, searching for the phone directory of Finland and trying to make out the language, input, output, etc.
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