[consulting] 2,400 Drupal sites for Spanish Municipalities?

[Khalid B]

Zak

I don't see Drupal mentioned in there.

I can't read Spanish, but it does not  seem that PISTA (the platform)
runs on Drupal.

http://www.pistalocal.com
http://www2.mityc.es/pista/

(Unless Dries really did it in a clandestine fashion, and ported
Drupal to Java ;-) )

On 12/20/05, Zack Rosen <zack at civicspacelabs.org> wrote:
> http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/4590/194
>
> "Open source e-government platform to expand to thousands of Spanish
> municipalities
> eGovernment News – 06 September 2005 – Spain– Regional & Local/Open
> Source Software
>
> Further to an agreement signed in August 2005 by the Ministry of
> Industry, Tourism and Trade and the Spanish Federation of
> Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), over 2,400 Spanish
> municipalities will be granted access to the PISTA Administración
> Local e-government platform.
>
> Launched in January 2005, PISTA Administración Local is an ICT
> platform designed to help small and medium-sized municipalities offer
> e-government services to citizens. Access to PISTA Administración
> Local is made available free of charge to municipalities and,
> according to the project's initial agreement, FEMP is in charge of
> maintaining and promoting the platform as well as of providing
> technical assistance and training to participating municipalities.
> With the signing of a new agreement on 1 August 2005, the FEMP is
> committed to implement the platform in at least 2,400 municipalities
> over the next two years. Ultimately, the platform should allow all
> Spanish municipalities to have a web presence and offer transactional
> e-government services
>
> Based on open source software, PISTA Administración Local includes a
> number of functionalities such as for instance a content management
> application and an electronic newsletter generator. The platform was
> launched in the Framework of the PISTA Programme, an initiative
> managed by the Ministry of Industry's Directorate General for the
> Development of the Information Society. PISTA, – which stands for
> 'promotion and Identification of emerging services of advanced
> telecommunications' – is designed to facilitate the emergence of
> electronic applications and services in a number of key sectors,
> particularly the public administration"
>
> -Zack_______________________________________________
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