[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“The United Kingdom is working to move all its local government
services online by the end of 2005, because of an initiative
spearheaded by Prime Minister Tony Blair called the Local
Authorities Website National Projects (LAWs). In the process,
APLAWs (sounds like ‘applause’), a huge open source content
management project, has sprung up, and for UK local authorities, it
appears to have risen head and shoulders above its proprietary
competition.“APLAWs is the result of Camden Borough Council’s Pathfinder
assignment, one of 25 government-funded exploration projects, aimed
at exploring and developing new ways of implementing
e-government…”