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.

Events

Code for America Summit

DotGov Design

Gamechangers

Jerome Hardaway

Empowering veterans through code.

Ideas

Add image meta tag to USAJOBS posts to increase social media reach

Industry

Google launches public sector division

July 1, 2022

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.

CivicFolio

A portfolio website theme for civic technologists.

COVID Dashboard

State COVID-19 updates.

Go .gov

Get your .gov domain.

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

Pitches

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

GOV.UK says it will shut down its platform as a service offering

July 12, 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

Denice Ross named federal chief data scientist

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: Click Here to Kill Everybody

The must-read security book for every government leader, elected and administrative.

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

Roadmapping government websites

Public roadmaps are a powerful demonstration of civic openness.

Luke Fretwell

Backpacks, bean bags and blue jeans: My take on ‘tech titans,’ 18F and USDS

Two semi-retired government employees still have a bone to pick with 18F and USDS.

Luke Fretwell

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

Adventures in father-son civic hacking.

Luke Fretwell

Making a chief data officers playbook more accessible

And suggestions for the CDO Council.

Luke Fretwell

Civic hacking for '100% .gov'

Re-imagining the government domain name registry experience.

Luke Fretwell

Hello CivicFolio

A portfolio website theme for civic technologists.

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

Father-son civic hacking: Open Data Day 2022

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

Luke Fretwell

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

Time for Alpha 2.0.

Luke Fretwell

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

Feeds

Mozilla Blog

Updates from Mozilla.

Schneier on Security

An internationally renowned security technologist Bruce Schneier's blog.

The Cybersecurity 202

The Washington Post cybersecurity newsletter.

WC3

Updates from the World Wide Web Consortium.

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