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- What government can learn from Olay
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- The federal government is giving away free .gov domains to all official U.S. government entities
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- Biden nominates Robin Carnahan to be next GSA administrator
- Backpacks, bean bags and blue jeans: My take on 'tech titans,' 18F and USDS
- Working in public
- Roadmapping government websites
- Virtual queuing and appointment startup Whyline raises $1.25M from e.Republic Ventures
- Center for Plain Language publishes 2020 federal government plain language report card
- GSA: Distributed work makes government teams happier, more productive and inclusive
- Facebook announces Roy Austin will lead new internal civil rights organization
- Mozilla: Here's how to proactively manage social media bad actors, including politicians
- Twitter permanently suspends @realDonaldTrump
- Terms of use: Applying a human rights framework to social media platforms
- Making government research more inclusive
- 2021 GovTech 100 list highlights key companies helping power local government, but there's still a lot of room for open innovation
- U.S. Air Force is doing a brand review 'to ensure an inclusive and professional environment'
- New DOTGOV Online Trust in Government Act gives governments easier access to official .gov domains
- Cori Zarek named new executive director for Georgetown's Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation
- Veterans Affairs publishes 'government’s first-ever employee experience journey map'
- GAO publishes agency data governance assessment, recommendations to Chief Data Officers Council
- The Government We Need: How government can make public budgeting more participatory
- The Government We Need: How government can support climate action
- Defense Department has more than one million personnel working remotely, have 'increased their productivity'
- How to watch the historic SpaceX NASA flight launch
- Good government services
- Rethinking bail
- NASA will host a virtual COVID-19 hackathon in partnership with European, Japanese space agencies
- RAND report offers insights into second generation open source intelligence
- Design thinking in the intelligence community
- Defense Department launches digital COVID-19 symptom checker
- U.S. intelligence community releases annual transparency report
- U.S government publishes human-centered design evaluation and buying guide
- USAID seeks chief technology officer
- Governments now have access to a centralized resource of open source coronavirus projects
- Free webinar: 'Quickly Shifting to Distributed Teams in Government'
- Distributed teams are critical to the future success of digital government services
- GitHub opens up about its relationship with ICE
- TSA seeks chief innovation officer
- NSF will fund $120 million to advance artificial intelligence innovation
- The Government We Need: How government can find its purpose
- NSA launches new cybersecurity directorate to 'prevent and eradicate threats to national security systems and critical infrastructure'
- Winning 'The Shadow War'
- UK will pilot AI government procurement guidelines co-designed with World Economic Forum
- NSA challenges students to test their cyber skills in mock national security exercise
- Food Safety 2.0: FDA shares its vision for a digital, transparent food safety system
- 'The woeful state of government technology'
- White House adds 'agile and responsive' security practices to trusted internet connections updates
- New center wants to help Congress grok deep space, deep fakes
- GAO tells Defense Department to 'fully implement' open source pilot program
- United Nations digital economy report gives comprehensive insight into global emerging tech trends and the future impact on us all
- Policy hackathon in SF to address U.S., European city challenges
- How civic hackers helped California's DMV get digital momentum
- The Government We Need: How we can code a better government
- Intelligence community names privacy, civil liberties leaders
- New GovPress update
- A playbook for government as a platform
- Democracy and 'The Great Hack'
- The Government We Need: How we can bring more diversity into elected office
- In-Q-Tel explains explainable artificial intelligence
- Pineapple or pepperoni? Homeland Security's pizza analogy hopes to educate the public on foreign interference of elections
- Government-funded report on government-funded research not accessible to the people who funded it
- Intelligence community creates executive role to lead U.S. election security efforts
- CivStart wants to help government leverage technology that serves the needs of vulnerable, underserved communities
- What went wrong with the open data movement
- Register for the 2019 DKAN Open Data Summit
- NSF to governments: Science must be open, transparent, collaborative
- Is the cloud saving government money?
- Coast Guard alert shows that even commercial vessel security is just basic government security
- Government open innovation labs
- Find the truth. Tell the truth.
- Code.gov gets a U.S. Web Design System refresh
- The Government We Need: How government can secure us in the internet+ era
- Introducing The Government We Need
- California levels up on digital, seeks director for new innovation office
- Idea: Procurementeers, an open, collaborative government procurement community
- Digital government transformation at scale
- Podcast idea (call for collaboration): The Government We Need
- Golden State dot-gov
- Part 2: Re-imagining the California DMV website
- Re-imagining the California DMV website
- We want you: Recruiting and hiring for government digital services
- For and with the people: An introduction to government digital service
- Liquid democracy: Blockchains and governance in the post nation-state era
- GovFresh Q&A: New Accela CEO Gary Kovacs
- Newsom proposes new California Office of Digital Innovation for 2019-20 budget
- Newsom's first-day executive order prioritizes government technology procurement reform
- The security book everyone in government must read in 2019
- Canada adopts open source mandate for government software
- Governmental digital: A framework for scalable, sustainable digital government services
- U.S. Defense Department escalates commitment to open source software
- 'Government Digital' with Canada CIO Alex Benay
- How Marquis Cabrera avoided 'being a knucklehead' and became a champion of global government innovation
- Kiba Gateaux on how blockchain can facilitate peace
- Hudson Hollister and government open data leadership
- California releases state government website standards
- Inclusive government forms
- Building software for better public meetings
- 'Regulatory Hacking': How startups and governments can work together to change the world
- Rethinking personas in government
- California issues open source, code reuse policy
- Podcasting local government dysfunction
- Should government #DeleteFacebook?
- Serving California: Angie Quirarte
- How government can enable peace through entrepreneurship
- The Red Queen Problem: Innovation in the DoD and intelligence community
- Office of Naval Research goes lean
- Benchmarking U.S. government websites
- A few ways to fix a government
- '10% Happier' government
- Telling Detroit's stories
- Podcast: Civics 101
- Government comics
- San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon on dresses, roses and personal empowerment
- Government Blockchain Association wants to facilitate public sector blockchain awareness, adoption
- Washington gives national security innovation a boost
- Register for DKAN Open Data Summit
- Values for government technology
- Federal agency blockchain group to convene July 18
- 'War Dogs' and government procurement
- Hacking for Defense lessons learned
- 'You're More Powerful Than You Think'
- District Match lets mission-driven organizations match addresses to elected officials in bulk
- AgileGovCon 2017
- What government needs to know when purchasing software-as-a-service
- 6 charts to help entrepreneurs and investors understand the business opportunity in government
- It starts at the park: Local governments lead the way in drone advocacy and regulation
- Certifying city innovation
- Advice to Jared Kushner and the new White House Office of American Innovation
- Hope, change and tech
- San Francisco seeks CIO
- Voterheads wants to make it easier for you to follow government council meetings
- Presidential Innovation Fellows made permanent through bipartisan TALENT Act
- Transforming U.S. government services in a digital world
- 'Smarter Faster Better' government
- DOD advisory board approves innovation recommendations
- e.Republic announces top 100 government technology companies for 2017
- Neighborly inspiration from CEO Jase Wilson
- GSA issues software-as-a-service request for information
- Event: Reimagining the Digital Reform of Government in the Trump Era
- What’s different about GovTech?
- The power of digital governments around the globe
- Book: 'How to Talk to Civic Hackers'
- Hacking for Diplomacy: What we learned with the State Department
- The long tail of political mail
- Federal government progress in IT reform
- Passive intelligence for government
- Transforming digital government
- Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department takes notice
- Bringing California open data to life
- Nudging residents to better engagement
- Obama 'Wired'
- OpenGov expands to open source, open data
- Making open election data more accessible to voters
- Getting out the vote
- Ekistic Ventures launches $15M fund to 'solve critical urban problems'
- Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 5)
- The government technology pitch
- Bay Area cities team with startups to solve civic problems, scale government innovation
- Ash Carter wants to keep DOD weird
- Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 4)
- 'Delivering on Digital'
- GAO to lean more on analytics for government accountability
- DISA kicks off overhaul of federal background checks
- The seeds of a federal government software-as-as-service digital platform?
- Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 3)
- Transforming government without ego
- Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data (part 2)
- Why open source matters for government and civic tech (and how to support it)
- Driving smart city innovation with open sensor data
- White House makes open source official, will launch Code.gov to share U.S. government software
- Hacking for Diplomacy – Solving foreign policy challenges with the Lean LaunchPad
- Hack civic hacking
- Pokémon Go(vernment)
- Phaedra Chrousos retrospects federal government digital service
- San Francisco seeks chief digital services officer to lead online strategy, execution
- Government IT lobbyists play key role in blocking federal technology innovation
- Y Combinator wants to make cities better
- icitizen wants you to stay informed, engaged beyond the voting booth
- Civic technology (infographic)
- If Clinton is president, she'll expand USDS, federal open source and open data efforts
- Defining civic tech
- FAA seeks chief data officer
- City enthusiasts, innovators: Register for BRIDGE SF
- GAO needs a better digital strategy. Here's how 18F and USDS can help.
- Omidyar releases civic tech report, specific calls to action
- Now reading: 'Delivering on Digital'
- New online course: Agile for the government product owner
- Cloud.gov is FedRAMP Ready, moves feds closer to internally deploying tech projects faster
- Measuring 18F's value
- How to be a 'Start-Up City'
- Regulatory hacking
- Hacking for Defense (Week 7)
- Patronus solves John Oliver's 911 issue
- 500 Startups opens its doors to (better) government technology
- Superpublic wants to supercharge municipal government innovation
- Government vendor as an 'open organization'
- Government as ‘The Open Organization’
- Government 'Originals'
- Free webinar: 'Agile for the Government Project Manager'
- Substantive feedback on White House open source policy as comment period extended
- California seeks chief data officer
- Government (software) as a service
- New digital city pilot program
- Kickstarter campaign for city design method cards
- California seeks CIOs
- U.S. government releases federal open source policy
- GovReady wins $1.1M DHS contract to make security more open
- Feds want to build better digital 'front doors' to government
- The Mission Model Canvas – An adapted business model for mission-driven organizations
- Insights from federal digital design leaders
- Beta government
- Hacking for defense: Connecting Silicon Valley innovation culture and mindset to the defense and intelligence communities
- Say hello to ProudCity
- 4 ways the federal government can improve plainlanguage.gov
- How to build a lean startup inside government
- How you can follow and discuss government technology news using HashtagGov
- Top 3 trends in modern constituent services
- Thank you
- Funding government technology
- Benchmarking for better government
- Government and the 'empowered product owner'
- 9 reasons why Vets.gov is the future of federal government websites
- Why local government must go digital
- California commission wants the state to design a better government
- Romulus wants to make constituent relationship management more delightful
- 'No ugly, old IT.'
- Why Cloud.gov is a big deal
- FCC launches beta FCC.gov
- Oakland seeks chief information officer
- Elon Musk as government innovator
- Participation and the cult of catalogs
- USDS publishes design standards for federal government websites
- Thank you, Jake
- Retrospecting agile government
- What should governments require for their open data portals?
- Take the 2015 Agile Government Survey
- California launches innovation contests to improve government operations
- 7 books for better digital government
- White House moves to a more integrated, mobile-friendly blog
- Keep plugging away
- Bloomberg commits $42 million to scale government performance management, open data
- Get 10% off Code for America Summit registration with GovFresh discount code
- How can we make GovFresh better?
- Federal CIO Council releases open data prioritization toolkit
- Submit your question suggestions for 'State of Agile Government' survey
- Tennessee's new logo
- San Francisco publishes year two plan, continues to lead on open data
- 5 a16z podcast episodes for government
- Feds publish guide to setting up an open source project
- USPTO's tech strategy is a blueprint for all government IT
- GovDelivery expands government communications offering with Textizen acquisition
- 12 books for better government
- Cities and startups
- How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science
- 5 principles of government software development
- The changing relationship between tech and government
- The web numbers behind NASA's Pluto flyby
- Gauging civic wellbeing
- When government doles out delight
- RSVP: CivicMeet for Bay Area civic entrepreneurs
- Voter wants to be Tinder for politics
- The future of government technology procurement
- Subscribe to the GovFresh newsletter
- Let's give 18F some space
- How St. Louis is using data and technology to improve the lives of low-income residents
- How Boston is using data and technology to improve the lives of low-income residents
- SeeClickFix raises $1.4 million to grow its 311 platform
- 18F starts building pattern library for federal government websites
- Submit your applications for the Code for America Technology Awards
- GOV.UK refreshes digital services strategy, goals
- Boston, St. Louis civic tech teams get $200,000 to improve the lives of low-income people
- White House joins with 11 cities for 'Startup in a Day' initiative to help businesses launch faster
- Google is feeling lucky about civic technology
- ForeignAssistance.gov beta shows how government can use the power of open data
- Open source-based PaaS provider BlackMesh gets FedRAMP green light
- Government technology market snapshot
- Building an internal digital government champions network
- Gartner says open data, analytics, online citizen IDs are the future of government technology
- Doing/done: The beauty of GOV.UK's 'What we're working on' updates
- GOV.UK updates digital service standards
- Doubling down on a good thing: The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps Lite
- How and why Los Angeles deployed open source and agile
- Sofman joins SmartProcure as government sector EVP
- How you can get involved in the 2015 National Day of Civic Hacking
- Register: 'Agile Government and the State of Maine'
- Government-focused DevOpsDays DC set for June 11-12
- Accela acquires mobile 311 platform PublicStuff
- Re-thinking 911
- Can government deliver happiness?
- New video roundtable series: 'Transforming Government IT'
- Inside Palo Alto's new Civic Technology Center
- Register: Discuss agile government with USCIS CIO Mark Schwartz
- Thoughts on the new acquisition.gov
- Re-thinking the whitehouse.gov homepage
- USAspending.gov gets an official GitHub repo, feedback loop
- How federal agencies can use a little funk to get moving on citizen engagement
- How to not be the next USAspending.gov
- How one city changed its website for the better (and has the analytics to prove it)
- Ideas for the new White House chief digital officer
- Register and learn how Salt Lake City is going agile
- Quick thoughts, takeaways from the new federal government analytics dashboard
- Building big tent democracy
- The 4 most popular .gov websites aren’t mobile friendly
- It's time for a national chief data officers council
- Nextdoor now lets neighbors poll one another, better quantify results
- 5 ways CIOs and IT vendors can work better together
- GovTribe brings a better user experience to federal government acquisition
- Getting started with Agile government
- Feds finally get some Slack
- U.S. Department of Energy has a new chief data officer
- Buenos Aires citizens get a simpler way to login to government
- AGL launches Agile Government Handbook
- USPTO preps for new website launch
- OpenFBO: re-imagining the next generation FedBizOpps
- U.S. Digital Service opens itself up to the public
- Chief data officer as business developer (part 2)
- Chief data officer as business developer
- New GovLove podcast focuses on local government issues
- Inside the new FCC consumer help center
- Talk to the hand: New Covington logo breaks government convention
- GSA takes a big step towards baking agile into federal procurement
- GAO: State, local governments should cut expenditures by 18 percent
- Philadelphia launches alpha city website
- An investment in the future of government technology
- City icons and Vocativ's livability index
- Taking the innovation office government-wide
- What if mayors ruled the world?
- The Freakonomics of 'Government Employees Gone Wild'
- With BlueLight, there's a 911 app for that
- 7 characteristics of government technology startups
- The collaborative state
- A new way to write to the White House
- Government innovation and how to make it work
- Jan. 10: Celebrate your city on CityCamp Day
- Big IT vendors, civic hackers and the future of 'Smart Cities'
- DHS report outlines challenges, opportunities of open source in government
- Help get USDA to lead with APIs when it comes to America's parks
- Analytics and outcome-based government
- Defaulting to open: A foundation for data-driven decisions
- Doubling down on government technology
- Register for Data Transparency 2014
- These 7 local governments will Code for America in 2015
- 7 things you need to know about the 2014 Code for America Summit
- Y Combinator issues request for government-focused startups
- Thank you, Ellen Miller
- GovFresh guide to openFDA
- FCC readies to refresh FCC.gov
- White House wants feedback on its open government website
- U.S. Energy Department seeks chief data officer
- Got natural disasters? There's an open source emergency preparedness toolkit for that
- Join us at the 2014 Code for America Summit
- How you can help build a more agile government
- Models for API driven startups built around public data
- Feds didn't say agile development contributed to Healthcare.gov failure
- It's time for open data on open data
- Reinventing government procurement
- DOJ seeks CIO
- An open data blueprint for the U.S. Department of Commerce
- e.Republic expands model to venture capitalism, funds first startup
- Dan Morgan starts first day as first U.S. DOT chief data officer
- Two SF civic innovation programs now accepting fellowship applications
- New GovFresh logo
- With Screendoor, DOBT makes simple web forms key to better government
- San Diego seeks chief data officer
- Seven reasons why you should apply for this federal government innovation fellowship
- Oakland vendor API requirement a big step for municipal open government
- Introducing GovPress
- SF reboots open data efforts
- Don’t sell products, tell stories
- U.S. DOT seeks chief data officer
- New Orleans seeks CIO
- HHS seeks entrepreneurs for year-long fellowships
- GitChat with Gavin Newsom
- Building a better .gov beta
- Save the date (May 31-June 1) and hack your city
- Seven habits of a highly effective FCC
- Harvard offers $100K government innovation award
- Calling .gov startups: apply for the 2014 Code for America accelerator
- NASA re-launches open innovation efforts
- NIST releases open source mobile app test tool
- Education Department wants your ideas on open data, APIs
- 'Open Data Now' author Joel Gurin on how businesses and government are building the data economy
- GitChat with GSA CIO Sonny Hashmi
- FCC CIO David Bray on social media, open source, agile development and more
- GitHub and the C-suite social
- Civic hackers: The White House wants you
- Should government charge API fees?
- Hack like Ben Franklin
- SF names Joy Bonaguro as city's first chief data officer
- Government's role in fostering sustainable civic technology
- D.A.T.A. and opening up Latin America
- Obama's IT 'trauma team' and recruiting Silicon Valley
- CodeAcross 2014
- Pete Peterson on public engagement and, literally, a platform for civic innovation
- Piqua sets the civic example for cities of all sizes
- New Zealand forks the United Kingdom
- Inside looking out at Code for America open house.
- Startup.civ: StreetCred
- Inside the new BART.gov
- GovFresh building a government WordPress theme
- San Francisco City Hall
- The politics of physics (and healthcare.gov)
- 2013 GovFresh Awards winners
- What I learned doing the GovFresh Awards
- Startup.civ: SmartProcure
- An API strategy for the U.S. government
- Government contracting: An example of cheating and the solutions
- Why no one uses your government data
- Civic values
- Oakland (California) City Hall
- Now reading: 'Smart Cities'
- Dave Eggers' latest brings civic technology full 'Circle'
- Continuing San Francisco’s national leadership on open data
- Government contracting: Business size and the implications of cheating
- OpenOakland 1.5: A year and a half in review
- Submit your nominations for the 2013 GovFresh Awards
- USDOT seeks CTO, deputy CIO
- Knight: More than $430 million invested in civic tech since 2011
- Is California forcing state agencies under one private cloud?
- Open source all the cities
- Playing with new Census dwellr app.
- Darrell Issa may have just lost the open government vote
- Spike and Eddie kick off CityCamp Oakland #citycampoak @openoakland
- Oakland Mayor Jean Quan at CityCamp Oakland
- Kudos to the city of Oakland for hosting CityCamp Oakland IN CITY HALL.
- Code for The Philippines: Help urgently needed
- Apply now for one of the best gigs in civic technology
- The State Department's mobile site is now responsive
- White House opens huge opportunity for designers, developers to increase We the People engagement
- Can public data on federal energy usage make government more sustainable?
- .gov designer: Lou Huang
- NYC chief urban designer to speak at CivicMeet Oakland Nov. 7
- NSF accelerator program brings science innovation to 300 teams in first two years
- NASA Goddard seeks CIO
- Commerce.gov goes beta, wants your feedback
- Breaking the wall in Chicago
- FreshWrap: Healthcare.gov meets Rap Genius, DOD open source FAQs, Code for America 2014 and more
- Can Clay Johnson save federal government procurement?
- ArchiveSocial helps keep government social media on the record books
- .gov designer: Danny Chapman
- San Francisco: Driving the boundaries of open data
- We the People petitioners want access to healthcare.gov source code
- New FCC CIO launches blog, joins Twitter
- Steve Spiker and Eddie Tejeda sharing OpenOakland's work at East Bay Mini Maker Faire.
- Now reading: 'The Foundation for an Open Source City' by Jason Hibbets
- FreshWrap: CfA Summit, procurement, healthcare.gov and more
- Chicago launches first comprehensive, public data dictionary
- Someone awesome can be Oakland's next CIO
- Original Civic Industries business card (and first one handed out by co-founder Eddie Tejeda). #opengov design + history
- North Dakota names new CIO
- New North Carolina iCenter lets state 'try before you buy' tech products
- National Conference on Citizenship seeks CIO/CTO
- GovFest organizers decompress, look to the future
- An open letter to venture capitalists frustrated with the federal government shutdown
- Chicago's effort to grow our own talent
- Procurement app hōrd gets an upgrade
- Love the Department of Better Technology's logo
- Delaware wants your help redesigning its next website
- America needs a .gov backup plan
- The openwashing of Healthcare.gov
- Just received our copy of 'The Solution Revolution.'
- Colorado gets a logo
- New SF effort will embed startup DNA into government
- Civic leaders, technologists set to convene for 2013 Code for America Summit
- Talkin' 'bout a (solution) revolution
- San Francisco seeks chief data officer
- SF mayor helps cut tape on new GitHub HQ, posts muni code repo
- Oakland moves closer to adopting open data policy
- Oakland City Hall
- Baratunde on how to code back
- Tipping my open government hat
- Visualize this: A week's worth of NYC subway entries and exits
- Revelstone shares lesson learned from the civic startup trenches
- PublicStuff builds a civic network that connects government and citizens
- Open data vital for San Francisco’s Bike Share
- Open government's double standard
- San Francisco makes open data city policy
- Big feet: Walkonomics wants to crowdsource the friendliness of the world's streets
- First time reading @nytimes print edition in forever. 'The Mayor's Geek Squad' (page 22)
- Please take this open data survey
- FreshWrap: Citizenville, EU and Japan data portals, NYC BigApps
- Help crowdfund this open source city book
- Is San Francisco sittin' on the dock of the open data bay?
- Big shout to everyone who participated on #codeacross today!
- FreshWrap: Code Corps, open data census, Philly property calculator, Hawaii data bills
- BillTrack50 wants to make it easier to search, engage with legislation
- Park.IT or ticket
- Oakland pulls ahead of SF in the Bay Bridge Open Government Series
- FreshWrap: Advice to civic hackers, open data field guide, paint your city
- Visualize this: 32,000 DC Bikeshare Trips (VIDEO)
- Funding open government
- Palo Alto's open data efforts (VIDEO)
- NationBuilder brings community software to government
- Gaming the future of government
- CivicMeet January: Sacramento, SF, Vancouver
- Is Piwik government's 'open' alternative to Google Analytics?
- 9 ways to make your government website better (Part 1)
- Civic accelerator Tumml to host 'Urban Innovation and the Role of Government' talk
- Captricity frees government data from paper captivity
- 'Making' government
- Crowdfunding government (VIDEO)
- What do 1.5 million NYC 311 service requests look like?
- 'Hack City' (VIDEO)
- Building civic 'Startup Communities'
- Open source democracy
- Civic skunkworks and Moneyballing New York City
- 'We see this digital space of empowering our citizens as the next generation of city government.'
- Civic apps competition? There's a book for that.
- Data Challenge Spotlight: WhyGDP?
- .@Wired December issue back page 'Found' column imagines the future of tolls.
- Rebooting .gov
- Data Challenge Spotlight: Visualizing Health Reform
- Where are the women in e-government, tech policy and politics?
- Data Challenge Spotlight: The Art of Community Wellness
- City participatory budgeting takes its first steps
- Revelstone brings 'Moneyball' to government
- Improve San Francisco from inside City Hall
- How to join (or start) a civic tech movement where you live
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