Purpose
The Local Government & Municipal Knowledge Base is a 100% free information sharing resource for Councils & associated organisations.
It was set up to encourage cooperative information sharing between Councils. All articles and information on the site are contributed freely by site members, and anyone & everyone is encouraged to join the site. If you find any inaccurate information, please feel free to correct it.
There are over 500 Local Councils in Australia alone, and many thousands world wide. This is equates to a huge amount of knowledge and expertise, which if shared freely will benefit all Councils everywhere.
Scope
Any information of interest to Australian & New Zealand Councils & Water Authorities is welcome on the site & consultants & other businesses are welcome to create a page describing their services.
Exclusions
Material prohibited in the Wikidot Terms of Service
Hierarchy of Information
It is possible to set up a site in a very structured way so that pages can have parents & children, but this site has been set up with only a fairly loose structure and lots of hyper-links between pages. The closest thing to a site hierarchy or site map, is the side menu which contains a list of major pages.
Hosting
This site is hosted by Wikidot.com, and when you sign up to this site you automatically become a Wikidot member too. There are a few advantages to this, not the least being that you get five free sites similar to this one. You can, if you wish set up a personal website, a council website, a site for your community group, and a site for your sporting club for a grand total of zero dollars. Sound too good to be true? It takes a little bit of effort to learn how to set up a site, but there is a strong community to support you, so why not 
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