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Free webinar: 'Quickly Shifting to Distributed Teams in Government'
To support government teams quickly shifting to distributed work during the COVID-19 pandemic, CivicActions will host a free webinar — repeated daily the week of March 16 — to share best practices and answer questions from the government community at large. Topics to be covered include operations, communications, security and productivity in a distributed work environment.
Distributed teams are critical to the future success of digital government services
We’re at the point in the organizational and civic evolutionary cycle where distributed teams can and should play a critical role in building highly-effective digital government service teams.
GitHub opens up about its relationship with ICE
In a post on the GitHub blog, CEO Nat Friedman publicly addressed the company's business relationship with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, its opinion on the current administration's immigration policy and "the principles by which we make decisions in these areas."
TSA seeks chief innovation officer
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is looking for an executive-level chief innovation officer.
NSF will fund $120 million to advance artificial intelligence innovation
The National Science Foundation announced $120 million in funding for a new organization -- the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes -- "that will significantly advance research in AI and accelerate the development of transformational, AI-powered innovation."
The Government We Need: How government can find its purpose
The Government We Need talks with Brian Elms about how government can ask the right questions and find its true public service purpose.