The Open Information Systems Journal

2013, 3 : 48-53
Published online 2013 July 23. DOI: 10.2174/1874133900903010048
Publisher ID: TOISJ-3-48

Social Network Featuring Entertainment, Culture and Technology in Spanish Universities: The Infocampus Project

Francisco Ortiz and Raul Fraile
the Department of Physics, Systems Engineering and Signal Theory, University of Alicante. P.O. Box 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain

ABSTRACT

This paper presents the development of the Infocampus project (www.infocampus.es), the free and Open University social network featuring entertainment, culture and technology, developed at the University of Alicante for all Spanish universities by “Plan Avanza” of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (Kingdom of Spain). The paper will discuss the contents of this social network, its applications, and the technology used for their development.

Keywords:

Web 2.0, social networks, Plan Avanza, open source..