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This talk explores the tools, platforms, and processes developed for GovCMS, providing insights into how these innovations can be adapted for your own Drupal infrastructure.

Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can -- and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments -- and their neighbors.

In this session we'll provide some background and explain how the new platform will leverage a 100% open source toolset of Drupal, Gitlab, Lagoon & Kubernetes for developing, testing, deploying, managing, supporting, and hosting GovCMS sites.

IPAA Innovation Award Finalist, Sharyn Clarkson from the Department of Finance answers ‘what really lies at the heart of innovation across the Australian Public Service’

Glenn Martin provides an overview of GovCMS at Druaplgov Canberra 2016.

Sharyn Clarkson discussed building community and capability with GovCMS at DrupalGov Canberra 2016.

The Australian Federal Government has taken the revolutionary step of standardising on Drupal in public cloud. govCMS is a 'Whole of Government' solution that any federal or state level agency can join, leveraging the infrastructure, knowledge and experience of the collective government.

What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness -- connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. Imagine the "writable society".

The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can't governments?