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How LocalGov Drupal is using the power of Sociocracy to make decisions and collaborate effectively on a local government open source project

Small things count - Create accessibility compliant digital content by distributing roles & responsibilities across cross functional teams.

This talk is about Australian cyber and critical infrastructure.

Over the past four years most jurisdictions across Australian government at federal and state levels have rapidly adopted Drupal as their chosen platform to host their public websites. Learn how the open source platform has been helping solve the technical and non-technical challenges common at all levels of government.

In this video, you’ll learn about the default content types in GovCMS and what content types are used for.

A thought provoker on how Governments can become part of the platform revolution to enable co-creation and co-innovation with themselves and with industry, for citizens to ultimately receive better experiences.

This session will present an innovative way to guide the visitor to the right part of the site by using an interactive decision tree. Users are guided through a series of steps to get them to the answer they are looking for.

Drupal powers the WA.gov.au platform. It has proven its worth in both setting whole-of-government standards in branding, usability, accessibility as well as reducing agency costs across the sector. It is the platform the WA Government has used to communicate with Western Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic as it has the flexibility, agility, and scalability to meet the ever-changing requirements of the state's response to the virus.

Between April and June 2020, Annex Digital was engaged to build some of Australia's principle COVID response websites. These were to be major parts of the national response, and we were given days to prepare them. In the end, we did this four times. This session will look at the projects and how we were able to execute from zero to Critical Infrastructure in under a week, the challenges we faced, and the technical solutions we used to get these over the line.

Security has always been a concern for government websites. Given the recent rise in cyber attacks and subsequent media attention, securing your Drupal site is now more important than ever.