Civic hacking
Civic hacking on GovFresh.
Thoughts
Every government needs a web bot policy
Build your bot policy now and work with your digital team or vendor to implement it.
Fork in the code
Repository bureaucracy and how the general public can help preserve government technology assets.
Analyzing U.S. federal and state government website metadata
How government-managed domains conform to basic metadata practices.
Open civic organizations
How government agencies, academia, nonprofit organizations and public sector vendors can build open, participatory models of operating.
Podcast
Hack to the Future with Emily Crose
Government's history, relationship and evolution with hackers and hacking.
Civic hacking with Carlos Moreno
A citizen journalist and civic technologist shares his experiences and lessons learned civic hacking.
Civic hacking with Steve Spiker
A pioneering civic technologist retrospects and shares his thoughts on hacking government for good.
How we can code a better government
The Government We Need talks with Code for America founder Jen Pahlka about how technology can be a force for civic change.
Papers
Briefs
Open data
A brief-ish explainer of open data.
Research
Declaration for the Future of the Internet
GovFresh research notes on the Declaration for the Future of the Internet.
Public AI
GovFresh research notes on public artificial intelligence.
Open source
GovFresh research notes on open source software.
Open innovation
GovFresh research notes on open innovation.
Open government
GovFresh research notes on open government.
Open data
GovFresh research notes on open data.
Signal
GovFresh building a government WordPress theme
Despite the fact that millions of websites around the world today are powered by low- and no-cost open source content management systems, nearly all small city governments remain trapped in the 90s. To date, however, this need hasn't adequately been served, and we need to change this. We can change this.
Introducing GovPress
After several years of talking about and conceptualizing, and months of development, I'm proud to formally (and finally) release GovPress, a simple, elegant WordPress theme for government.
New GovPress update
After a long hiatus, GovPress -- the WordPress theme for government -- has been updated.
Coding a COVID-19 dashboard (with my 13 year-old son)
Adventures in father-son civic hacking.
Hacking the chief data officers playbook
Making it more accessible, and suggestions for the CDO Council.
Civic hacking for '100% .gov'
Re-imagining the government domain name registry experience.
Government open data in 2022
Once thriving, now barely surviving. Ideas on how we can breathe more life into it.
Father-son civic hacking: Open Data Day 2022
Kickstarting USA.GovFresh, beginning with Federal Register open data.
Civic hacking Congress (part 1)
Building congressional pages with the new Library of Congress Congress.gov API.
Civic hacking .gov domains
Building a simple .gov domain search tool with CISA open data.
Civic hacking the Federal Register
Building an executive branch agency list using the National Archives' Federal Register API.
Civic hacking NASA (astronomy picture of the day)
Building a space photo of the day page using NASA's astronomy picture of the day API.
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Retrospecting 2022
Building community, civic hacking with my son, pedigree and public interest technology.
Civic hacking CISA cybersecurity news
Building a cybersecurity news page using the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency RSS feeds.
Civic hacking FDA's National Drug Code Directory
Building a look-up of Food and Drug Administration approved medicines.
Civic hacking the National Park Service
Building a national parks directory with the NPS API.
Civic hacking National Geodetic Survey survey marks
Building a survey mark finder app.
Civic hacking USAJOBS
Re-imagining federal government job openings with the USAJOBS API.
Civic hacking CDC notifiable diseases
Building a map of weekly notifiable disease cases across the United States.
White House wants your input on open source software security
A 'civic opportunity to help shape the government’s thinking about open-source software security.'
DEF CON Franklin to host inaugural release of 'The Hackers' Almanack'
Analysis of policy implications from DEF CON 32 findings.
World CityCamp Day 2025
A global movement of community-focused events that foster civic collaboration and innovation
