Using map and faceted search features to improve collaboration
Open Atrium is being used as a base platform for collaboration at the World Bank because of its feature flexibility. Last week the World Bank launched a new Open Atrium site called "Innovate," which is being used to support an organization-wide initiative to better share information about successful projects and approaches to solving problems.
The core of the site is built around helping World Bank staff discover relevant "innovations" happening around the world and providing a space to discuss them with colleagues in topical discussion groups. To facilitate this workflow we built a custom map-based browser feature that combines custom maps with faceted search, letting users quickly find interesting content. The screenshots below from a staging site with a partial database show what this feature looks like.
As users apply new facets to their searches, the map results update to reveal global coverage for innovations that meet the search criteria.
