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    "title" : "USAID, HHS & DOL Mobile Gov App Challenge Winners |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"USAID, HHS \u0026 DOL Mobile Gov App Challenge Winners","summary" : "One way federal agencies create Mobile Gov products is through third party development. Some agencies use platforms like Challenge.gov to get the word out to developers and there have been 3 mobile app challenge awards so far this","date" : "2013-03-07T11:21:19-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
        
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