e-collaboration platform for the development of rural areas and enterprises

This paper presents the basic assumptions of the Collaboration@Rural project (C@R) supported by the EUpsilas 6^th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. Apart from discussing primary objectives of the project-focused on supporting the development of rural areas by providing network-based collaboration environment-it also shows basic assumptions of a 3-layer reference model serving as the foundation for C@R architecture. As an example of service rendered available within such network collaboration environment, the implementation of a notification service components is presented herein.