Its probably not the best example - its clear because only governments do electoral roll stuff. But it is not really a discrete application one can put in the cloud.
I am pretty confident that I can find suitable pilot applications and get council leaders interested in seeing them delivered - through the new shortcuts of GCloud.
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I do agree with you though, it'd be great if government was using better software and making better use of open source.