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GovFresh works to inspire government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy. We feature Gov 2.0, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people and official U.S. government feeds, all in one place.

Buzz

“It’s pretty clear to me that GovFresh is the closest thing to TechCrunch the #gov20 sector has.”
- Clay Johnson, Director, Sunlight Labs (link)

“Luke Fretwell is GovFresh’s founder, and he’s becoming a welcome new voice in the debates around government technology policy.”
- Lewis Shepherd, CTO, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments (link)

“GovFresh is awesome.” – Steve Ressler, Founder, GovLoop

“One of the great resources for tracking trends in Open Government, Gov2.0 and related activities is GovFresh.com.”
- Bob Gourley, CTOvision (link)

Gov 2.0 Radio interview with GovFresh founder Luke Fretwell:

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Team

Luke Fretwell is founder of GovFresh, GovFreshTV and MilFresh. He grew up, worked and lived in the Washington, DC, area before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Connect with him on Twitter and LinkedIn or email luke [at] govfresh [dot] com.

Alexis James is the producer and host of GovFreshTV. She is also the managing moderator/editor at an online marketing startup, while maintaining her own social media clients via 10thFloorPR.com. When she’s not submerged in the web up to her eyeballs, she creates, markets and sells her own line of eco-friendly pet clothing (EarthsBestFriend.com), and postulates about life, politics and religion on her blog, alexisinthecity.com. You can track her down at a variety of gov 2.0 events or connect with her via her blog, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.