Digital

Books

Citizenville

Gavin Newsom

A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

Cyd Harrell

Click Here to Kill Everybody

Bruce Schneier

Countdown to Zero Day

Kim Zetter

Digital Transformation at Scale

Andrew Greenway, Ben Terrett, Mike Bracken, Tom Loosemore

Dignity in a Digital Age

Ro Khanna

Inclusive Design for a Digital World

Regine M. Gilbert

Proudly Serving

Rebecca Woodbury, Marlena Medford, Luke Fretwell

Revolution 2.0

Wael Ghonim

Sandworm

Andy Greenberg

The Perfect Weapon

David E. Sanger

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Nicole Perlroth

Working in Public

Nadia Eghbal

Direct message

Angie Quirarte

Civic techie, bureaucracy hacker, dot connecter

Carla Briceno

CEO and co-founder, Bixal

Joe DiStefano

Resiliency planner, startup founder, SimCity aficionado

Marlena Medford

Civic tech evangelizer. Storyteller. Diversity seeker.

Victor Sauceda

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

Events

Code for America Summit

DotGov Design

Innovations

Census Open Innovation Labs

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

NASA Technology Transfer Program

Bringing NASA technology down to earth.

NSA Technology Transfer Program

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

Public Sans

A font for government, by government.

The Opportunity Project

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

U.S. Web Design System

A design system for the federal government.

Labs

Chief data officers playbook

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

USA.GovFresh

Re-imagining USA.gov.

Organizations

Creative Commons

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Foundation for Public Code

Mozilla

Open Collective

Open Data Charter

OSET Institute

The Citizen Lab

VetsWhoCode

World Wide Web Consortium

Podcasts

Dead Men Don’t Vote

How To Citizen with Baratunde

The Government We Need

think civic

Radar

Centers of Excellence publishes federal customer experience maturity model

July 19, 2022

California announces new Office of Data & Innovation

July 13, 2022

Tech, academia share ideas on building a more robust U.S. government open source policy

June 14, 2022

U.S. government releases 2022 federal IT operating plan

June 14, 2022

Government, tech companies release open source software supply chain security modernization plan

May 13, 2022

National Science Foundation wants help building open culture

March 16, 2022

Defense Department: Choose 'OSS solutions before buying proprietary'

February 7, 2022

California shares beta version of its new design system

January 31, 2022

NASA Spinoff 2022 features ventures using agency IP that 'boost the economy, protect the planet, and save lives'

January 24, 2022

U.S. government, technology community advance open source security collaboration efforts

January 14, 2022

California is working with six states to re-use code from its vaccine records portal

January 9, 2022

CDO Council retrospects 2021, publishes data playbook

January 3, 2022

GAO recommends the creation of a federal digital service academy

November 27, 2021

Census to host Open Innovation for All virtual summit

November 26, 2021

Federal government publishes cybersecurity incident and vulnerability playbooks

November 18, 2021

Defense Innovation Unit publishes responsible AI guidelines

November 18, 2021

Data Coalition makes recommendations to the Chief Data Officers Council

November 17, 2021

NIST wants public feedback on cybersecurity labeling for consumer software

November 3, 2021

2021 Federal Plain Language Report Card released

November 2, 2021

The federal government is giving away free .gov domains to all official U.S. government entities

April 21, 2021

Reviews

Review: A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

A must-read for the entire civic spectrum.

Review: Dignity in a Digital Age

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

Thoughts

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

Adventures in father-son civic hacking.

Luke Fretwell · January 11, 2022

Making a chief data officers playbook more accessible

And suggestions for the CDO Council.

Luke Fretwell · January 14, 2022

Civic hacking for '100% .gov'

Re-imagining the government domain name registry experience.

Luke Fretwell · January 21, 2022

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 · February 17, 2022

Father-son civic hacking: Open Data Day 2022

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

Luke Fretwell · March 10, 2022

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

Time for Alpha 2.0.

Luke Fretwell · March 21, 2022

Lincoln Memorial at night with car lights

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 · July 1, 2022

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 · July 28, 2022

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 · August 16, 2022

RSS government

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

Luke Fretwell · October 18, 2022

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 · October 26, 2022

Civic hacking .gov domains

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

Luke Fretwell · October 29, 2022

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 · October 31, 2022

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 · November 3, 2022