Last updated by gordon fowler on Fri, 2009-03-27 12:25
Local governments could benefit greatly by migrating from mostly proprietary and outdated tools to world-class free software content management system and community managing software... such as Drupal.
Drupal, with its strengths in many levels of access control (Drupal core roles) and allowing people to run their own sections of a site (Organic Groups) among many many other features, is a particularly good fit for the needs of city and town government departments and schools.
Bringing change to municipalities is at least as difficult as bringing new concepts and practices to any institution. Organizing to do this is more important than technical development even, and discussing plans and progress is a major focus of this group.
This group is also for all people in the Drupal community interested in developing Drupal tools to meet the requirements of villages, towns, cities, and rural districts – especially for the purpose of improving community participation in this concept called self-government.
Related groups: PEG Space (Public, Education, and Government access television), Open Media Project and Libraries; also look for people with similar interests in improving government and community communication in your local geographical Drupal groups.