News

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (METI), who has been spearheading digital transformation within the Japanese government, decided to digitalise the way grants are managed.

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.

W3C lists 140 tools for testing accessibility. Janna Malikova covers some of these tools outlining the pros and cons for testing your website.

What if you never had to fill out paperwork again? In Estonia, this is a reality: citizens conduct nearly all public services online, from starting a business to voting from their laptops, thanks to the nation's ambitious post-Soviet digital transformation known as "e-Estonia." One of the program's experts, Anna Piperal, explains the key design principles that power the country's "e-government" -- and shows why the rest of the world should follow suit to eradicate outdated bureaucracy and regain citizens' trust.

A case study looking back over 2 years of blood, sweat and beers to consolidate 14 government websites into 1, and migrate 2 more at the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. On time, on budget, using GovCMS SaaS

Using a UX led approach to features, content and design, the Single Digital Presence project is improving the way citizens interact with the Victorian Government online. This talk will showcase the current SDP websites and briefly discuss the technology that underpins them.

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.

The Australian federal government has more than 1000 inconsistent websites and a workforce spread out across 200+ organisations.

Mike Gifford talks about Accessibility as well as Drupal and Open Source in Government.