With hundreds of websites built upon various (and often outdated) technologies, and maintained by cross-cultural teams all across the globe, UNESCO faced by 2020 a major challenge: how to normalize and industrialize this complex ecosystem, connected to various Information Systems, and be able to scale for the next 15 years at last.

Guess what? The answer was Drupal + a design system!!

After almost one year of hard work, UNESCO launched its first website built upon this webfactory in April 2021. Since then, many websites were released on this new technical architecture and design system, including www.unesco.org in November 2021, for the Institution's 75th birthday.

In this session, Sylvain and Maxime will showcase how they redesigned and rebuilt the entire UNESCO web ecosystem/Web Factory upon Drupal, having in mind: scalability (hundreds of websites to be developed on this factory), IS interoperability (lots of other web components are plugged to this factory), security, and maintainability.

The rock-solid basis includes the following:

- An interconnected Drupal web Factory with 6 installation profiles for UNESCO's various needs and use cases
- A strong design system based on bootstrap to handle the design of every new website, inside the factory or outside the factory
- A global coordination/project management designed to onboard multiple agencies to work on mutiple web projects on this base

This session is intended to provide the audience with real feedback on failures and successes encountered for 3 years and be able to learn from these in order to succeed in building and running Drupal Website Factories.

Session (45 minutes)

Experience level of the audience

Intermediate