Why Do You Need a Public Portal?

The EKO-System public portal option provides your organization with a publicly accessible Website for sharing your projects with policy makers, funders, the general public and other stakeholders. Your public portal promotes transparency and supports your ability to visually communicate your most current strategy, goals and project efforts.

Unique Look and Feel

You choose the features and design of your portal. Our portal framework can support a variety of designs and configurations. Our portal designers work closely with you to create a portal that accommodatesyour organization's data and layout requirements. When your portal is fully configured, you will receive a unique Website address (e.g. http://www.yourname.ekosystem.us). This site uses our portal framework as well as some other Public Portal sites listed below.

Public Portal Examples

Washington State Habitat Work Schedule Provides access to salmon recovery projects in Washington State.	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife TRACS State Wildlife Action Plan and species restoration pilot project	Upper Columbia River Salmon Recovery Provides access to salmon recovery projects in the Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Region of Washington State.
Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe Supports natural resources project tracking, tribal fisheries management and EPA reporting for the tribe.	Growth Management Portal Demo This site demonstrates how the framework can be used to support the WA Growth Management Act

Updating Project Information

Projects on your portal are updated in real-time as you make project updates in your EKO-System database. EKO-System Portal Widgets are added to your portal pages to provide instant access to your EKO-System project data and electronic files.

Securing Projects

You choose which projects get published on the portal. Only projects designated for public view are searchable on your portal.

Mapping Your Project Data

Project mapping is provided with each portal. Our integrated Map Viewer provides a user-friendly mapping experience similar to those offered by other on-line mapping tools such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Our map viewer can be configured specifically for your organization and also supports integration with your organization's GIS.

Cross Browser Support

Our portals and data widgets will run on all popular browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.