Nikhil Deshpande - GeorgiaGov Interactive

As Director of GeorgiaGov Interactive at the Georgia Technology
Authority, Nikhil Deshpande leads the team responsible for
managing Georgia.gov, the official online portal to Georgia
state government, and a web-publishing platform for state
agencies and elected officials.


Nikhil envisioned and led state government’s transition to an
enterprise web-publishing platform based on Drupal, an open
source content management system hosted in the cloud. The
platform currently supports 78 state agency websites. Under his
direction, Georgia became the first state in the nation to use
Drupal across it's enterprise and meet special needs of
constituents with a range of disabilities affecting vision,
hearing, motion and cognition making the platform Section 508 and
WCAG 2.0 AA compliant.


Nikhil strongly advocated the use of social media
for Georgia.gov when using social media for government
was not common, and established a presence for the state on
Facebook and Twitter to quickly address citizens’ questions and
concerns.


Nikhil also serves as adjunct faculty at the Atlanta campus of
the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he teaches graduate
classes in Interaction Design and Game Development.





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