Drupal/Acquia – Implementing the Open Government directive with Open Source Drupal
| Format: | Webinar | about our webinars |
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| Instructor: | Kieran Lal, Acquia; and Andrew Hoppin, NY Senate | |
| Time: | 1.5 hour webinar | |
| Fee: | Free | |
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Acquia/Drupal – Implementing the Open Government Directive webinar recording
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Webinar Description
The purpose of the Open Government Directive is to improve transparency, participation, and collaboration. The directive requires significant website innovation for all departments and agencies. This overview will cover how open standards and semantic web technologies can help aid transparency. The Webinar will also demonstrate how Drupal's ecosystem of features and contributors provide a rich social publishing platform for collaboration and participation. We will review three Drupal sites featured in the open government innovations gallery.
Featured Guest Speaker: Andrew Hoppin, CIO, New York Senate
Andrew Hoppin was hired as the first CIO of the NY State Senate. The CIO's office changed how the senate interacted with its constituents by implementing transparency, collaboration, and participation throughout the Senate IT infrastructure. Centralized around the Drupal platform, the project exposed legislative data, gave each legislative committee it's own web site, and streamed live committee meetings to improve transparency. They increased participation by taking the Senate to social networks where their constituents were already active. They increased collaboration by giving senators and departments their own web site. Senators improved their ability to collaborate with their constituents, and department staff could collaborate more effectively. In this Webinar the CIO will explain how they were able to take advantage of the Drupal social publishing platform to help implement the directive.
What You'll Learn
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You will learn about the Drupal Social Publishing platform and applications
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You will hear case studies about the use of Drupal for government Web sites
- And how Drupal addresses the open government mandates for transparency, collaboration, and citizen participation
Who Should Attend
This course is for government web managers, IT specialists, senior managers and any other government staff involved with citizen engagement initiatives and agency website operations at any level.
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