e-government

For any interested UK parties, I've just created a Drupal group on Communities of Practice, a public sector social site run by the Local Government Improvement and Development (formerly IDeA, see Wikipedia) branch of the Local Government Association for general Drupal advocacy and support.

Start now and submit your session for the Drupal Government Days: 7-9th April 2011 in Brussels!

The Drupal Gov Days event is the first of its kind and the most comprehensive solution oriented conference in the region. 

WELCOME!

I've written a blog to provide a quick overview that explains more about the purpose of this group:

http://SecureCloudComputing.info

"Secure Cloud Computing for Drupal-based Open Government"

The idea is to develop a team to define this detail, as part of responding to sales opportunities like this one:

http://tinyurl.com/openrfp-merx-208991

Is there anyone out there who has done iGovt authentication with Drupal yet? (http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/authentication) Is there available source code for it out there somewhere?
We're about to do some for a client but figure this must have been done with Drupal before, so before we built and open source the module we're interested in if anyone has some previous experience to shed on the subject?

Die UBIT-Gruppe der Wirtschaftskammer Wien hat heute eine interessante Veranstaltung gemacht ("Chancen für UBIT-Mitglieder im E-Government & E-Health Umfeld")

Einleitung

Drupal ist eine Open Source Plattform und ein Content Management System (CMS), mit dem dynamische Webseiten erstellt werden können. Von einer lebhaften Community vorangetrieben etabliert sich Drupal zunehmend zum führenden Produkt für Social Software Lösungen. Es hat bereits einen bedeutsamen Anteil am amerikanischen und weltweiten Markt für CMS des öffentlichen Sektors gewonnen und befindet sich damit auf einem Weg kontinuierlichen Wachstums. Die wachsende Liste berühmter Regierungsorganisationen, die Drupal für ihren Internetauftritt eingesetzt haben, und die erst vor Kurzem erfolgte Anerkennung durch den Industrieanlalysten Gartner, der Drupal als visionäres Produkt am Markt bezeichnete, sind deutliche Zeichen dafür, dass dieses Wachstum in Zukunft weiter beschleunigt wird.

Artikel lesen: Government 2.0 Leitfaden zu Drupal

The BC Public Service, an organization of 30,000 employees across an immense province, relaunched its corporate intranet in April 2010. In just 50 working days from development to production, a tiny team built an interactive intranet to support employee communications and collaboration. This work was completed within the existing site budget using an open-source platform.

These are some of the modules we used:

Administration Menu
Advanced Help

I and many others have asked for a list of the contributed modules used to build Whitehouse.gov. After it was pointed out to me that David Cole had displayed the list in one of his slides at DrupalCon—San Francisco, I found the archived presentation video, viewed it, and paused on that frame until I had my best guess of what each fuzzy entry said. Then I confirmed names by crosschecking that list against the list on Drupal.org of all modules available for Drupal 6. For all who are interested, this post not only lists these modules but also links to the respective project page for each module.

If you are looking into creating a "Government" distribution profile, this should give you a good start.

Where plans for Drupal 7 are to move all or part of a module into core, I have noted that next to the respective entry. Generally when only part of a module will be moved into core the remaining components will continue to be available for Drupal 7 on the same project page as before.