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Using a UX led approach to features, content and design, the Single Digital Presence project is improving the way citizens interact with the Victorian Government online. This talk will showcase the current SDP websites and briefly discuss the technology that underpins them.

Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can -- and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments -- and their neighbors.

Morpht was engaged by Department of Finance to build the GovCMS 8 theme. This presentation walks through its features and approaches.

In this session we'll provide some background and explain how the new platform will leverage a 100% open source toolset of Drupal, Gitlab, Lagoon & Kubernetes for developing, testing, deploying, managing, supporting, and hosting GovCMS sites.

The Australian federal government has more than 1000 inconsistent websites and a workforce spread out across 200+ organisations.

The U.S. Web Design Standards are a library of design guidelines and code to help government developers and designers quickly create trustworthy, accessible, and consistent digital government services -- and as of this summer, it has a Drupal theme! This session will include a whirlwind tour of the Web Design Standards , some extolling of its virtues, and a demo of the USWDS theme for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8.

This talk looks at the Government-Wide Pattern Library in Drupal

What can governments learn from the open-data revolution? In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness -- connecting bureaucracies to citizens, sharing data, creating a truly participatory democracy. Imagine the "writable society".

The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can't governments?