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New GovPress update

After a long hiatus, GovPress -- the WordPress theme for government -- has been updated.

A playbook for government as a platform

There seems to be a playbook for all things digital government, and now there's the "Government as a Platform Playbook" that provides deeper insight into the wonky word technologists often use to describe a more exponential approach to government service delivery.

Democracy and 'The Great Hack'

The new Netflix documentary, The Great Hack, is an eye-opening account of how voter and social media profile data, particularly from Facebook, combined with a sophisticated, incendiary digital media campaign, can undermine democracy, as we saw happen with Brexit and the 2016 presidential campaign.

The Government We Need: How we can bring more diversity into elected office

The Government We Need talks with Run for Something’s Sarah Horvitz about the changing face of local politics and how we can bring more diversity into elected office.

In-Q-Tel explains explainable artificial intelligence

The intelligence community's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, published a helpful primer on explainable artificial intelligence.

Pineapple or pepperoni? Homeland Security's pizza analogy hopes to educate the public on foreign interference of elections

Because "responding to foreign interference requires a whole of society approach," the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has published resources that help educate the public on ways hackers can impact U.S. elections.