Drupal/Acquia—Implementing the Open Government Directive with Open Source Drupal

On-Demand Webinar

NOTE: Large files will take more time to download

• Webinar recording: Drupal/Acquia—Implementing the Open Government Directive with Open Source Drupal (WMV, 71 MB, 1 hour, 17 minutes, January 2010)
• Presentation slides: Drupal/Acquia—Implementing the Open Government Directive with Open Source Drupal (PDF, 13 MB, 32 pages, January 2010)
• Transcript: Drupal/Acquia—Implementing the Open Government Directive with Open Source Drupal (PDF, 32 KB, 8 pages, January 2010)

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

• You will learn about the Drupal Social Publishing platform and applications
• 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.

About the Presenters

Kieran Lal, Drupal Community Guide, Acquia Kieran is a passionate technical leader interested in building, and motivating teams to create innovative products. He has led technical teams and designers for over ten years. At IBM Research he was a co-founder of the entrepreneurial Extreme Blue innovation program. He currently helps lead many efforts in the Drupal project including the automated patch testing for Drupal core development, the security team, the drupal.org redesign, Drupalcon San Francisco, drupal.org infrastructure, and business development for the Drupal association. He lives with his wife in San Francisco, where he enjoys vegan home cooking, hiking, biking, and wine tasting.

Andrew Hoppin was appointed as the first ever Chief Information Officer for the New York State Senate in February 2009 with a mission to dramatically improve government transparency, citizen participation, and operational efficiency for the Senate through technology. The CIO's Office works in three main realms: opening up the Senate's legislative and administrative data for public access (for transparency), overhauling the Senate's internal communications and collaboration infrastructure (for efficiency), and launching new Web 2.0 / social media technologies for the Senate (public participation). The new NYSenate.gov website, based on Drupal, launched in May, has been heralded as a leading example of the use of "Web 2.0" technologies by a legislature, inviting citizens to become creators of content on the site as well as consumers of content, and including interactive websites for every Senator and every Committee of the Senate. Previously, Andrew co–founded the NASA CoLab program at NASA Ames Research Center, which increased efficiency and transparency at NASA by building new collaborative relationships between NASA and external communities of practice such as the entrepreneurial technology community, the global open-source software movement, and constituents in the virtual world of "Second Life." Andrew has also founded several startup technology companies and has served as a strategy consultant, Advisor, or Board member for leading technology and political organizations such as the Craigslist Foundation, Netroots Nation, the Space Generation Advisory Council and the New Organizing Institute.

Content Lead: DigitalGov University Team
Page Reviewed/Updated: June 22, 2012