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When it comes to government websites, Drupal is everywhere. In 2021, around 56% of the world’s government websites relied on Drupal. Numerous case studies illustrate the profound technical benefits of choosing Drupal. Serving both national governments and local administrative divisions, Drupal has a proven track record as a reliable, cost-efficient framework for websites of varying scales.

Speaker: Sean Lehane. Join us, and dive deep on the most relevant challenges and lessons-learned facing a digital transformation from proprietary-to-open. You are sure to come away with some tips that will aid you in planning for and keeping your large-scale and mission-critical projects on track.

For Government Agencies, effectively communicating and delivering content to your internal teams and external audiences is mission critical. Complexities abound making security, governance, compliance, and personalization seem impossible. However, with great challenges come greater opportunities.

Reviewing and cleaning up your website will save you time and effort in the future, highlight potential content gaps, and show areas where you can improve functionality and the user experience.

Getting Drupal to work in a government environment is a technology problem. Getting good content into that Drupal system, however, is a people problem.

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is about enabling a technology-led model for a nation’s growth that is collaborative, equitable, and democratises opportunity at population scale. It is based on a design strategy with layered building blocks, and an innovation ecosystem. Professor Ngaire Woods hosts Nandan Nilekani who will share the journey of India’s digital transformation using DPI.

The presentation will cover the latest developments in GovCMS9 and detail the roadmap for migrations.

Salsa migrated the large health.vic.gov.au from SiteCore to Victoria’s Single Digital Presence (SDP) to access the benefits of open source and the whole-of-government platform. The project represents a very large site with over 110 different features identified for rebuilding on SDP, and over 80,000 content objects (pages, documents and components) for migration.

The last few years have been busy for GovCMS. We delivered large amounts of Covid content to Australians; feeling the weight of responsibility to not make any mistakes and watched over enormous spikes in traffic that did not fall away as the pandemic ebbed and flowed. The reality of that workload and pressure meant we had to delay most of our optional work.

GovCMS is a hosting platform available for government agencies and entities across different levels of government. GovCMS offers two hosting options, a Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. GovCMS currently host over 330 websites for over 100 agencies.