Localgov Drupal News Today

Although the idea of an LG-GDS is great, for these reasons it should be underpinned with a fundamental reset in the delivery of local services using a set of common standards

The LocalGov Drupal project has seen councils across Britain and Ireland pooling their resources to create excellent websites at a fraction of the usual cost and in a quarter of the time

Topics Cumbria County Council is beginning an effort to increase national take-up of the LocalGov Drupal website publishing platform. It has taken over from Croydon as the lead council for the programme, which has recently won a fresh round of funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Local Digital Fund and moved into its beta phase. LocalGov Drupal uses the Drupal open source content management system and has been developed by a number of local authorities and...

Croydon Council has switched its website to run on the open source codebase of the LocalGov Drupal publishing platform. The move marks a significant stage in the project to develop the platform, which was funded with £75,000 from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Local Digital Fund. Tom Steel from the Croydon Digital Service reported on the step, taken in mid-December, in a blogpost, saying it marks a milestone in code sharing between local authorities and has given...