Within the Delaware Department of State, the Government Information Center builds and maintains WordPress websites for state agencies and municipalities. WordPress as a CMS makes it easier for non-technical employees to add and edit content, and Delaware citizens benefit by having access to information that impacts their lives. When the pandemic hit, the Government Information Center built a WordPress website for COVID-19 information that the public could use to find the latest data, testing locations, child care, reopening guidelines, and other important information. Everything was built with non-technical users from the health and emergency management departments in mind, as they would be in charge of maintaining content that was constantly changing in an ever-evolving public health crisis. This talk is about how the team of designers and developers came together to quickly build a website that contributes to public health, reaches under-served communities, and helps keep Delawareans safe.
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Andy Stitt
Andy Stitt has been in the “tech for good” space for the last 12 years. Spending most of his time in the non-profit world, he now works in state government as the lead front-end developer for the Government Information Center at the Delaware Department of State. He builds and manages WordPress websites for Delaware state government agencies and municipalities and is the lead developer for the state’s coronavirus information website.
You can learn more about him and his work at https://andystitt.me/.
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