There is already a similar effort underway in the UK. This is the
Accessible and Personalised Local Authority Web Sites by aD and some other partners including Oracle, Sun,and half a dozend local authorities.
According to the site, their goals are to
develop a standardised model for local authority websites with the philosophy that a citizen should only need to access one website when transacting with government, whether this be local, regional or national. This standardised model will be a set of standards, as well as a deliverable software system using these standards ...
The product list which is supposed to be available for download off their site in March 2002 (not sure how aD takeover affects this), will include
- system and architecture
- content and metadata
The system is based on ACS (not sure which version), and will be opensourced.
