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Arquitetura · Governação NB-C003

Web Ecosystem for a Municipality

FIG. NB-C003 · Arquitetura · Governação

Design, build and governance of the web ecosystem of a municipality, around two dozen online properties under direct management, from the institutional portal to tourism, events, citizen-participation and local-commerce sites.

The challenge isn't a website, it's an estate: heterogeneous domains, different technologies and distinct life cycles, all needing a common strategy for hosting, security, observability and orderly decommissioning.

Dark dossier-style technical schematic of a municipal web ecosystem architecture: a top "Shared Governance" band (hosting, security, observability, GDPR) fanning out via cyan arrows to a central grid of four site families (Institutional, Tourism, Participation, Commerce) totalling about twenty multi-stack PT/EN properties, a left lane of shared services (role-based content management, editorial/institutional separation, i18n, privacy-compliant metrics) and, at the bottom, the audiences (citizens and visitors). Monospace labels, near-black navy background, cyan accents and one amber-red stamp.
Dark dossier-style technical schematic of a municipal web ecosystem architecture: a top "Shared Governance" band (hosting, security, observability, GDPR) fanning out via cyan arrows to a central grid of four site families (Institutional, Tourism, Participation, Commerce) totalling about twenty multi-stack PT/EN properties, a left lane of shared services (role-based content management, editorial/institutional separation, i18n, privacy-compliant metrics) and, at the bottom, the audiences (citizens and visitors). Monospace labels, near-black navy background, cyan accents and one amber-red stamp.

Each property has its own audience and purpose, but shares principles: separation of institutional and editorial content, role-based content management, PT/EN bilingualism and GDPR-compliant analytics. Continuous rationalisation, consolidating what stays and decommissioning what no longer makes sense, keeps the estate lean, coherent and secure.

More than a sum of sites, this is architecture and governance work: giving a municipality a consistent, sustainable and maintainable digital presence.

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