Digital

Books

Working in Public

Nadia Eghbal

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Nicole Perlroth

The Perfect Weapon

David E. Sanger

Sandworm

Andy Greenberg

Revolution 2.0

Wael Ghonim

Proudly Serving

Rebecca Woodbury, Marlena Medford, Luke Fretwell

Inclusive Design for a Digital World

Regine M. Gilbert

Dignity in a Digital Age

Ro Khanna

Digital Transformation at Scale

Andrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken, Tom Loosemore

Countdown to Zero Day

Kim Zetter

Click Here to Kill Everybody

Bruce Schneier

A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

Cyd Harrell

Citizenville

Gavin Newsom

Direct message

Jarah Meador

Director of Challenge.Gov + CitizenScience.Gov

Rebecca Woodbury

Local gov content strategist

Victor Sauceda

CEO, founder, justice reform advocate, community leader, change agent

Marlena Medford

Civic tech evangelizer. Storyteller. Diversity seeker.

Joe DiStefano

Resiliency planner, startup founder, SimCity aficionado

Carla Briceno

CEO and co-founder, Bixal

Angie Quirarte

Civic techie, bureaucracy hacker, dot connecter

Events

DotGov Design

Code for America Summit

Innovations

U.S. Web Design System

A design system for the federal government.

The Opportunity Project

Use government data to build digital tools with, by, and for the people.

Public Sans

A font for government, by government.

NSA Technology Transfer Program

Transfers NSA-developed technology to industry, academia and other research organizations, benefitting the economy and the Agency mission.

NASA Technology Transfer Program

Bringing NASA technology down to earth.

Census Open Innovation Labs

Trailblazing open government through cross-sector collaboration, design, and technology.

Labs

USA.GovFresh

Re-imagining USA.gov.

Chief data officers playbook

A web version of the official U.S. government CDO playbook.

Organizations

World Wide Web Consortium

VetsWhoCode

The Citizen Lab

OSET Institute

Open Data Charter

Open Collective

Mozilla

Foundation for Public Code

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Creative Commons

Podcasts

think civic

The GovFresh Podcast

How To Citizen with Baratunde

Dead Men Don’t Vote

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Reviews

Review: Dignity in a Digital Age

Congressman Ro Khanna thinks different about the role of technology and democracy.

Review: A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

A must-read for the entire civic spectrum.

Thoughts

Screenshot of USA.GovFresh notifiable diseases page.

Civic hacking CDC notifiable diseases

Building a map of weekly notifiable disease cases across the United States.

Luke Fretwell

Civic hacking USAJOBS

Re-imagining federal government job openings with the USAJOBS API.

Luke Fretwell

Screenshot of USA.GovFresh GeoMarks app.

Civic hacking National Geodetic Survey survey marks

Building a survey mark finder app.

Luke Fretwell

Screenshot of Yosemite page on USA.GovFresh.

Civic hacking the National Park Service

Building a national parks directory with the NPS API.

Luke Fretwell

Screenshot of USA.GovFresh drug search page.

Civic hacking FDA's National Drug Code Directory

Building a look-up of Food and Drug Administration approved medicines.

Luke Fretwell

Screenshot of USA.GovFresh cybersecurity news page.

Civic hacking CISA cybersecurity news

Building a cybersecurity news page using the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency RSS feeds.

Luke Fretwell

Screenshot of space photo of the day page on USA.GovFresh.

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.

Luke Fretwell

Screenshot of Department of Interior page on USA.GovFresh.

Civic hacking the Federal Register

Building an executive branch agency list using the National Archives' Federal Register API.

Luke Fretwell

Civic hacking .gov domains

Building a simple .gov domain search tool with CISA open data.

Luke Fretwell

Screenshot of members of U.S. House of Representatives.

Civic hacking Congress (part 1)

Building congressional pages with the new Library of Congress Congress.gov API.

Luke Fretwell

RSS government

Defaulting to an open protocol to syndicate government information makes public communications universally accessible.

Luke Fretwell

Statue of John Harvard, Harvard University

Pedigree and public interest technology

The community that supports digital government services should be undeniably representative of everyone.

Luke Fretwell

Lincoln Memorial at night with car lights

Why and how I built Agile Government Leadership

AGL, which has since evolved into Technologists for the Public Good, was the testing ground for an experiment in what I now call an open civic community of practice.

Luke Fretwell

A meta tag on USAJOBS posts could substantially increase the visibility of federal government job opportunities

One simple piece of code to the U.S. government's employment website could go a long way in increasing social media reach.

Luke Fretwell

How California gets a return on its $25 million innovation investment

Time for Alpha 2.0.

Luke Fretwell

Father-son civic hacking: Open Data Day 2022

Kickstarting USA.GovFresh, beginning with Federal Register open data.

Luke Fretwell

Time for government to stop using Medium

A publishing platform that says it's an environment open to everyone doesn't provide equal access to all.

Luke Fretwell

Civic hacking for '100% .gov'

Re-imagining the government domain name registry experience.

Luke Fretwell

Making a chief data officers playbook more accessible

And suggestions for the CDO Council.

Luke Fretwell

Coding a COVID-19 dashboard (with my 13 year-old son)

Adventures in father-son civic hacking.

Luke Fretwell

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