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Why Drupal, Why Now? Real Impact: 7 (-ish) Case Studies of Drupal in Government Monday, December 12, 11 1

First, Why Open Source? No vendor lock-in (own your data) Extensibility: a voice in future development Benefit from the Community, contribute to the Community Monday, December 12, 11 4

Drupal is GROWING restorethegulf.net house of representatives fcc.gov department of veteran affairs commerce.gov science.house.gov state governments of education mdc.mo.gov ready.gov kenya.usaid.gov foreign governments international development we the people GO.USA.GOV relief efforts commissions data.gov/communities municipalities library.lbl.gov energy.gov whitehouse.gov senate.ca.gov mbda.gov smartgrid.gov fatherhood.gov teach.gov data.ed.gov policy.house.gov opic.gov FEMA.GOV arts.illinois.gov federal agencies Monday, December 12, 11 5

Modern GovTech Stack Monday, December 12, 11 7

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OpenGovernment Use of “modern technology” Best practices for citizen engagement Open data sets Published Open Government and FOIA Plan Downloadable/machine readable copies of virtually everything Mechanisms for public feedback and input Monday, December 12, 11 12

What’s Changing? Engagement Transparency Open Data Scalability Accessibility and Usability Flexibility and Speed Monday, December 12, 11 13

Engagement Invite every U.S. citizen to create, sign and vote on petitions for any issue they want - online. Monday, December 12, 11 14

Engagement Monday, December 12, 11 15

Engagement Takeaways High-traffic engagement tools with security, accessibility and scalability are possible. Monday, December 12, 11 15

Transparency How does Drupal promote transparency for everyday citizens? Monday, December 12, 11 16

Transparency Monday, December 12, 11 17

Transparency Takeaways Choosing a platform can mean choosing the way the public can access your information. Monday, December 12, 11 18

Open Data By telling a story, visualization helps make data a useful resource for the public. Monday, December 12, 11 19

OpenData: Visualizations Monday, December 12, 11 20

OpenData: Visualizations Monday, December 12, 11 20

Open Data Takeaways Educate Tell a Story Make Data Useful Be a Resource Monday, December 12, 11 21

Scalability The previous process for the House of Representatives encouraged wasteful spending with no simple process for platform building. Monday, December 12, 11 22

Scalability Takeaways Efficiency Standardization Scalability Extensibility Monday, December 12, 11 23

Accessibility Monday, December 12, 11 24

Accessibility Monday, December 12, 11 25

Accessibility Monday, December 12, 11 26

Flexibility and Speed Experienced team built with Drupal distro in two weeks. Monday, December 12, 11 27

Flexibility and Speed Monday, December 12, 11 28

Flexibility and Speed Monday, December 12, 11 28

Flexibility and Speed: Re-Use Takeaways Contribute Back Growing Momentum Shared Best Practices Monday, December 12, 11 29

So… Why Drupal, Why Now? Be pro-active in publishing information to the web Distribute and share open data Be more open with information, data and policy decision making Enabling the public to have a two way conversation with the government Collect needs and ideas from citizens Monday, December 12, 11 30

Questions? Jeff Walpole, CEO, Phase2 Technology E-mail: jwalpole@phase2technology.com Shawn Mole, Strategic Lead for OpenPublic E-mail: smole@phase2technology.com Twitter: @phase2tech Monday, December 12, 11 33