How Drupal is Transforming Government

Experience level: 
Beginner
Session Track: 

Business and Strategy

The purpose of this track is two-fold - one angle helps you to understand the advantages of Drupal from an organizational leadership angle and the other is to highlight the great Drupal sites and projects you're working on and to show what's possible. These sessions are business focused, and will be non-technical.

Speaker(s): 

Drupal is quickly becoming the de facto standard platform for governments websites, from small towns to the White House. 

In this session we’ll explore how government agencies are using Drupal to connect citizens, streamline internal operations, increase communication, release open data, lower costs, improve security, and further their missions. Additionally, we’ll dive into the unique challenges and opportunities that exist in working with government agencies.

By looking at demos of existing sites we’ll learn how public agencies of all sizes are using Drupal to make a digital platforms of the people, by the people, and for the people, in the 21st century.