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Between January and August 2021, CAST worked alongside digital partners on the ‘shared service layers and platforms’ initiatives, the outcome of which are four shared technical infrastructure solutions that have been developed and tested with charities. These solutions are open source and available to the sector.

For more information on the needs that these initiatives are serving, see this blog summarising the problems being addressed, and this recording summarising the briefs.

If you are interested in using any of these solutions, please email [email protected].

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• Notifications - summary blog from the digital partner
• Resource hubs - user testing outcomes </aside>

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• Notifications has the potential to make it easier and cheaper for thousands of charities to communicate with their end-users and improve delivery. Take a look at the Alpha platform
• Search is a service layer that provides search functionality that charities could integrate into websites, avoiding duplicating effort. Resources
• Open referrals is a service platform that supports service managers at a charity who want to be able to publish basic information about their organisation and services so that prospective referrers are able to find out more about them. Take a look at the Alpha platform and video demo.
• Resource hubs is a service platform, developed closely with a group of charities, that charities can download and install to publish resources and guidance materials to their key audiences. Take a look at an example that's using the Alpha platform </aside>