CityScout is a new and free Windows Phone 7 application that allows citizens to view real-time information about their daily driving routes. Using a Facebook or Live ID login users can view traffic updates and submit incident reports, on road accidents, medical emergencies, broken cars or similar, by pointing, capturing and publishing. Courtesy of Microsoft Bing Maps, the application provides a detailed map with indicative colors and icons showing the status of different roads. Users can find out more about incidents by clicking on them and loading further details, including pictures.

CityScout also allows users to share their incident reports on social networks added to the application. Other distinctive features include alerts about current traffic jams/incidents and registering different locations on the map to calculate distance. Launched by ITWorx, CityScout is available on the Windows Market Place and can be downloaded for free.

ITWorx Education will be participating at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) from 27-29 June 2011. Bringing together more than 13,000 educators, ISTE is a world-leading conference and exposition that presents the latest technologies in teaching, learning and education administration to stakeholders. The annual US-based event is a hub spot for the newest trends in leveraging technology in education.

Following marked success in the Middle East, ITWorx will be showcasing CLG (ITWorx Connected Learning Gateway), its social learning platform, to the North American market. CLG delivers personalized content, personalized and participative learning, inquiry-driven education, individual learning paths, parental engagement, and more; all while creating a holistic eco-system that connects teachers, students, and parents as active partners in the education process. ITWorx will reveal the significant leap towards 21st century learning that will result with the adoption of CLG in K-12 public or private education institutions.

 ITWorx will also showcase the latest version of its popular TeacherKit, a free application for iPad and iPhone. TeacherPal is a first-generation mobile gradebook that enables teachers to “Grade-and-Go”. The application includes important classroom management capabilities such as creating student profiles with face recognition, taking attendance, recording merits and demerits, taking class and student notes, arranging seating charts, and much more.

Visit us at booth #2563, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.  

A new solution that helps enterprises manage their strategic plans and performance will be available from ITWorx in the coming weeks. ITWorx Corporate Strategy Management (CSM) is a bilingual customizable product that helps share, track, communicate, cascade, and update strategies, and monitor strategic performance. It provides executives and managers summarized views of the organization’s overall performance with the ability to drill down into objectives and results. ITWorx CSM creates consolidated and detailed views of Key Performance Indicators using customized scorecards, dashboards, and strategy maps. The solution is based on SharePoint 2010 and SQL 2008.

ITWorx will be exhibiting with Microsoft at the 15th Performance and Planning Exchange (PPX) Symposium in Ottawa, Canada from 25-26 May 2011. The PPX is a federally incorporated not-for-profit corporation run by volunteers, serving as a discussion center for developing, gathering, sharing, learning, and improving knowledge, understanding and practice of governance, planning and managing for results, accountability, and public reporting. The event will highlight key issues for public sector organizations: Results Based Strategic and Operational Planning, Measuring and Monitoring Results, Reporting on Results, and Commitment to Results. Teamed with Microsoft, ITWorx will showcase innovative software solutions dedicated to help in strategy execution, planning, and performance management of public sector organizations, governmental institutions and enterprises.

For more information, please visit the PPX Symposium website.

ITWorx will showcase its innovative software solutions and services at COMEX 2011 hosted in Muscat, Oman from 25-29 April. Over the span of 21 years COMEX has helped thousands connect and learn about the latest ICT developments that can improve their organization’s bottom line.

With services spanning collaboration portals, enterprise application integration and business intelligence, ITWorx will present its ready-made offerings that serve organizations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Cutting-edge solutions to public sector challenges will be highlighted through the ITWorx Citizen 1st portfolio which includes a ready-made bilingual performance management solution – ITWorx GPM, ITWorx Citizen Appointment Management, and enabling mobile- government services. In addition ITWorx will deliver a session that will tackle the latest trends in mobile communications and performance management for the public sector industry.

Visit us at Oman International Exhibition Center, Microsoft Pavilion- Business Section.

ITWorx Workshop ‘Performance Management and Mobility for Governments’
April 25, 2011 from 12:30-13:00
April 26, 2011 from 15:45-16:15
April 27, 2011 from 11:15-11:45
April 28, 2011 from 15:00-15:15

An integral part of the Egyptian society, ITWorx employees submitted more than 70 innovative ideas to help Egypt on its way to a new future. Employees voted to select the best ideas that ITWorx can implement to help rebuild the country. Managed by ITWorx BEGOOD team, the initiative also included fundraising to help those whose livelihood was affected by the recent events as well as blood donation. The “For a Better Egypt” campaign will continue to provide support to the Egyptian community.

ITWorx will be exhibiting at the fourth annual "Exploring ICT in Education" conference on 16 April 2011. Held under the auspices of CNAQ (College of North Atlantic, Qatar) and ictQatar (Qatar's Supreme Council of Information and Communication), the conference aims at promoting the use of technology in education, and offers schools and education institutions best-in-class practices needed to successfully adopt e-learning in the State of Qatar.

With a strong footprint in delivering successful e-learning solutions for the biggest names in Qatar, ITWorx Education team will showcase the benefits of the latest version of CLG (Connected Learning Gateway), the best social learning platform, and how it can add to Qatar's K12 public and private education. The team will demonstrate to school administrators, teachers, and principals the amazing tools that this multilingual platform provides for interactive teaching, personalised learning and parental engagement, including learning via mobile phones and iPads/iPods.

Visit our booth at CNAQ's main campus, 68 Al Tarafa, Duhail North Doha, Qatar.

ITWorx will be exhibiting at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana, from 14-16 March. CoSN is one of the leading annual education technology exhibitions and conferences in the USA targeting K12. Under the theme of “Master the Moment”, CoSN will be discussing the challenges and opportunities facing education and determining best-in-class practices to leverage the capabilities of technology and meet productivity, innovation and pedagogic needs both inside and outside classrooms and schools.

A CoSN member, ITWorx will be joining key education technology leaders from the public and private education sector and showcasing its new social learning platform CLG (Connected Learning Gateway) to the US market. “Simple, efficient and fun”, CLG is a dynamic learning management system that empowers teachers, students and parents with cutting-edge tools to create a uniquely engaging e-learning experience. ITWorx will demonstrate how CLG opens up the space of personalized learning, parental engagement and mobile learning including learning via mobile phones and iPads/iPods.

Visit us at Innovation Pod #55, Innovation Central Hall, Grand Ballroom, Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel.

ITWorx won the development of phase II of the Department of Economic Development Dubai Shared Services, UAE. This project continues to leverage the citizen-centric portfolio of solutions, ITWorx Citizen1st. The solution includes implementing an Employee Knowledge Base, Correspondence Tracking System, and Call Center System. The Shared Services provides a single point of contact for all DED employees helping DED to automate several internal services and track cases and documents. The new solution is based on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.