The explicit purpose of the Open Government Directive is to improve citizen interaction and engagement. Realizing the intentions behind the Directive will require significant web site innovation for many departments and agencies. Join us for this complimentary overview of Drupal to learn how and why it is being quickly adopted across U.S. federal, state and local governments for social publishing.

Featured Guest Speaker: Andrew Hoppin, CIO, New York Senate

Proprietary web content management products may improve complex publishing workflows – addressing the transparency principle – but few are “state of the art” with regard to social interactivity on the web. Achieving this mandated interactivity with citizens will require new government sites to implement social publishing capabilities – because participation and collaboration can only happen if citizens can both share their feedback on actions
taken by their government, and contribute their own ideas to the
process.

Key takeaways will include:

• An introduction to the Drupal Social Publishing platform and applications
• Use case scenarios describing the use of Drupal for government Web sites
• How Drupal addresses the open government mandates for transparency, collaboration, and citizen participation