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

[Zack Rosen]

Sorry, should have provided more context.  This is an ongoing effort  
by the Spanish government.  To my knowledge they have yet to decide  
on a open-source CMS platform for their municipalities.  In my  
opinion this project should be something the Drupal community and  
Drupal consultants should participate in.

-Zack

On Dec 20, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Khalid B wrote:

> 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"
>>
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