GovFresh - Design / Technology / Democracy

Fork in the code

Fork in the code

Repository bureaucracy and how the general public can help preserve government technology assets.

By: Luke Fretwell

Posted: February 6, 2025

Fork in the code

Repository bureaucracy and how the general public can help preserve government technology assets.

By: Luke Fretwell

Posted: February 6, 2025

Thoughts

Ideas, opinions, observations.

Code fork icon

Fork in the code

Repository bureaucracy and how the general public can help preserve government technology assets.

Two overlapping sheets of paper, indicating documentation or files.

Government release notes

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

Shield icon

Cybersecurity standards for government websites

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

Microphone icon

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.

Thoughts

Briefs

Topics compressed for easier download.

Sparkles icon

Open source AI

A brief-ish explainer of open source artificial intelligence.

American flag and sparkles icons

American Dynamism

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

Scroll icon

New web accessibility law

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

Briefs

Direct message

Chats with our contacts.

Headshot of Jonathan Mostowski

Jonathan Mostowski

Acquisition strategist, author, innovator, problem solver

Headshot of Amy Paige Kaminski

Amy Paige Kaminski

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

Headshot of Ryan Wold

Ryan Wold

Public servant

Headshot of Jarah Meador

Jarah Meador

Director of Challenge.Gov + CitizenScience.Gov

Direct message

Signal

What's on our radar.

DEF CON Franklin to host inaugural release of 'The Hackers' Almanack'

DEF CON Franklin to host inaugural release of 'The Hackers' Almanack'

Analysis of policy implications from DEF CON 32 findings.

By: GovFresh

Posted: February 4, 2025

DEF CON Franklin to host inaugural release of 'The Hackers' Almanack'

Analysis of policy implications from DEF CON 32 findings.

By: GovFresh

Posted: February 4, 2025

Signal

Demos

Product demonstrations.

Text: Data.gov metrics dashboard

Data.gov metrics dashboard

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

Demos

Papers

Deep dives.

Circular laurel wreath design, colored in white, against a black background.

Open civic organizations

A deep dive on open civic organizations.

Papers

Research

Notes and deep work.

Road icon

Public AI

GovFresh research notes on public artificial intelligence.

Robot icon

Open Source AI Definition

GovFresh research notes on the Open Source Institute's Open Source AI Definition.

Table icon

SOMOSA Act

GovFresh research notes on the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act.

Compare code icon

SHARE IT Act

GovFresh research notes on the SHARE IT Act.

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.

Book cover of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War

Unit X

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

Cover of This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends

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

Cover of Autocracy, Inc.

Autocracy, Inc.

The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Book club
Subscribe