 Hello, okay So my name is Silva Rappie I work as an IT governance specialist for the municipality of Tirana and Today, I'm going to talk about us using next cloud as a collaboration software For a year now at the municipality a Few words about the municipality of Tirana It is the biggest municipality of Albania Tirana is also the capital of the country The city has a population of over 800,000 citizens we are over 1,500 employees and The offices are located in different parts of the town with the 13 directorates which are divided in smaller units and we have 24 administrative units to which are depended by the municipality So what were the challenges that the ice IT staff was facing before Deciding to implement a collaboration platform such as next cloud One of the issues that I mentioned earlier is the fact that the offices are placed in different locations and the Employees need to interact over the time need to exchange files and Some of them have like very sensitive data on them So we needed a very secure platform who we could trust before deploy the solution and also To facilitate this kind of collaboration between the employees We also need it away for better ways to recover the data since most of the staff was constantly asking the IT staff Well, they would delete files they needed to recover them And this would cost us a lot of time to in order to support all of them And we needed better ways to perform backups so File share and sync solution would solve most of these issues and next cloud would solve all of them This is like one of the main reasons why we deployed it so Why next cloud when you decide to? Invest on a new platform for your IT infrastructure. There are a few Factors or reasons that you take into consideration such as like the cost the updates it take The support you get from the company behind it, etc. Etc So some of the reasons why we decided to proceed with a next cloud was the fact that The next cloud was having continuous updates with a lot of apps being added all all over the time It would offer better features and Of course the special focus on security and the data privacy that It was having Also, one of the main reasons was the fact that Next cloud is a 100% open source platform the municipality during the last year has been following an open source approach in the IT solutions it is making One next cloud is one of them now We are under a migration into LibreOffice and switching from Microsoft Office and also using Thunderbird as an email client just to mention a few and also The list the last but not least is the fact that next cloud has an very active community Behind where we could like report to issues and get updates really fast About the technical implementation the municipality of Tirana has its own data center where we host all of the Platforms and the next cloud server also is being run this way Um So it it was last summer that we went through the migration to next cloud currently we have 1200 users More will be integrated soon through active directory. So these numbers will grow and in a daily basis. We have over 450 users Some of the most apps currently that we are using are rain loop collab round line The next cloud doc, which it's good to hear that it's having a lot of improvements in the future Calendar contact circles and notes But also many other apps are activated, but those are the ones which are like mostly used So the municipality of Tirana has like on average age of over 45 of the employees and Most of them are not like they tend to fear a bit technology are not very familiar. So when we Decided to go and use next cloud as a collaboration platform people tend to fear to fear that and We don't explore most of the features that set her etc So one way we found to solve this problem was to organize different training sessions Where we would explain how easy it was to to use it and how it facilitated their work in a daily basis It went quite well We had a lot of participants during those sessions also people who like were very familiar with the product but were curious to learn more about what could have done with next cloud and Some of the feedback we get was that the platform was very easy to use It was a safe year way to exchange files and documents Since like more than a year ago people would still exchange documents with USB sticks etc So the future plans was we are developing an e-learning platform with Moodle And we hope to integrate that via next cloud We have a special focus and are trying to motivate our users to use a collaborator online And we also plan to use Federation in the future Thank you all