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Good government services

In their new book "Good Services: How to design services that work," former UK Government Design Director Lou Downe offers the public sector an invaluable playbook to delivering government services that are in inclusive and intentional.

Rethinking bail

TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi's conversation with The Bail Project's Robin Steinberg is incredibly insightful and inspiring. Steinberg shares her work supporting those who can't afford to pay cash bail, which ultimately leads to a downward spiral of injustice.

NASA will host a virtual COVID-19 hackathon in partnership with European, Japanese space agencies

NASA will host a virtual COVID-19 hackathon May 30 to 31, 2020, in partnership with the European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

RAND report offers insights into second generation open source intelligence

The RAND Corporation published Defining Second Generation Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for the Defense Enterprise, a thoroughly informative report on how the intelligence community can better define and leverage technology to improve its approach to open source intelligence.

Design thinking in the intelligence community

The NavalX Centers for Adaptive Warfighting hosted a discussion on design thinking with Office of the Director of National Intelligence Director of Lateral Innovation Katherine Tobin. Tobin shared her design thinking journey and how ODNI incorporates it into its work.

Defense Department launches digital COVID-19 symptom checker

The U.S. Department of Defense has launched an online COVID-19 symptom checker at MySymptoms.mil.