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Government release notes

Government release notes

A simple way to keep public service communications open, authentic and regular.

By: Luke Fretwell

Posted: December 9, 2024

Updated: December 17, 2024

Government release notes

A simple way to keep public service communications open, authentic and regular.

By: Luke Fretwell

Posted: December 9, 2024

Updated: December 17, 2024

Thoughts

Ideas, opinions, observations.

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Government release notes

A simple way to keep public service communications open, authentic and regular.

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Cybersecurity standards for government websites

We need better guidance for a more secure digital government experience.

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Using AI to build a personal government technology podcast

I created podcast-like overviews of FedRAMP, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, TechFAR and Zero Trust with Google NotebookLM's deep dive feature.

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Code is digital experience (and law)

Great source code meets machine-readable web industry standards and best practices and – perhaps most important to some – adheres to the code of law.

Thoughts

Briefs

Topics compressed for easier download.

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American Dynamism

A brief-ish explainer of Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism.

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New web accessibility law

A brief-ish explainer of the new web accessibility law for state and local governments.

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Open source software

A brief-ish explainer of open source software.

Briefs

Direct message

Chats with our contacts.

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Amy Paige Kaminski

Author, catalyst, & champion for public engagement with space, science, & technology

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Ryan Wold

Public servant

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Jarah Meador

Director of Challenge.Gov + CitizenScience.Gov

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Rebecca Woodbury

Local gov content strategist

Direct message

Signal

What's on our radar.

Government websites fail basic cybersecurity practices

Government websites fail basic cybersecurity practices

ScanGov adds security grades, scorecards.

By: Luke Fretwell

Posted: October 22, 2024

Government websites fail basic cybersecurity practices

ScanGov adds security grades, scorecards.

By: Luke Fretwell

Posted: October 22, 2024

Signal

Demos

Product demonstrations.

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Data.gov metrics dashboard

Data.gov Product Manager Tim Lowden demos the new metrics dashboard.

Demos

Papers

Deep dives.

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Open civic organizations

A deep dive on open civic organizations.

Papers

Research

Notes and deep work.

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SHARE IT Act

GovFresh research notes on the SHARE IT Act.

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U.S. Web Design System

GovFresh research notes on the U.S. Web Design System.

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AI and the U.S. federal government

GovFresh research notes on artificial intelligence and the U.S. government.

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Open source

GovFresh research notes on open source software.

Research

Podcast

Talking with the people at the intersection of design, technology and democracy.

Civic hacking with Carlos Moreno

Civic hacking with Carlos Moreno

A citizen journalist and civic technologist shares his experiences and lessons learned civic hacking.

Civic hacking with Steve Spiker

Civic hacking with Steve Spiker

A pioneering civic technologist retrospects and shares his thoughts on hacking government for good.

How government can bring mindfulness to law enforcement

How government can bring mindfulness to law enforcement

The Government We Need talks with Mindful Badge's Richard Goerling about mindful policing.

Podcast

Book club

Recommended reading.

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Unit X

How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

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This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends

The Cyberweapons Arms Race

The People’s Spaceship

NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement after Apollo

Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Read Write Own

Building the Next Era of the Internet

Dignity in a Digital Age

Making Tech Work for All of Us

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Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Book club