Sector(s)
The Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) intranet hosts almost 7,000 pages that serve over 3,000 authenticated daily users, providing key and timely information for all employees nationwide, including during the Workplace Charitable Campaign, disseminated via the ECCC Government of Canada Workplace Charitable Campaign (GCWCC) microsite.
About the project
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) intranet falls under the responsibility of the Minister of the Environment and as a result is hosted on ECCC’s new intranet web platform, providing a similar function for IAAC employees.
The Intranets are the primary internal communications tools with content created by numerous web editors, publishers and administrators from both ECCC and IAAC's Communications teams managing publishing centrally.
ECCC’s current intranet web content management system was designed 15 years ago to meet the needs of the Department and has recently reached the limits of its technological effectiveness. The goal of the project was to migrate all three intranets to Drupal WxT, on a common build that can centrally be used for all three, leveraging features of DrupalWxT, and additional contributed features, such as Office365 integration, to provide a seamless and supportable platform for all future projects.
The intranets also feature a comprehensive federated SearchAPI, and a simplified Content Moderation Dashboard which keeps the content team in the front-end theme user experience.
Why Drupal was chosen
As an open source web content management platform, using Drupal allows Governments to be more easily maintainable, secure and adaptable. Working with DrupalWxT allows for complex information to be turned into a simple website for consumers to use. Mandated to meet WCAG-AA compliance and be fully multilingual, Drupal was a perfect fit.
Technical Specifications
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