News and Updates

In this recap of the October 2021 U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) Monthly Call, the USWDS team shares how their community can help teams solve problems together, and what tools and channels we can use to ask questions, get answers, and provide useful feedback.

For Veterans Day 2021, we asked members of TTS’s Veterans affinity group to write one or two paragraphs in response to the question, “Why do I continue to serve?”

For our September call, we focused on the future of the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS): Where does the design system go from USWDS 2.0? What did we learn from our 1.0 and 2.0 releases? Read key points and takeaways from this month’s presentation.

Applications for the first cohort of U.S. Digital Corps Fellows will open on Monday, November 8th.

For the second year, college and university students are leveraging the TOP model from Census to build hands-on skills and address some of our nation’s most pressing challenges.

Many opportunities are available for technologists to make an impact in public service. See how Avena Cheng, a data scientist at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), turned a passion for improving people’s lives into a govtech career.

The Open Data for Good Grand Challenge is now welcoming submissions from technologists and collaborators focused on deploying products with federal open data, as well as recruiting for qualified judges to score the submissions and help select winners!

Starting a civic tech career in government is not as unusual as you think. Current GSA employees share how they are building theirs.

Since 2003, one program in GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) has been leading the way in which the government serves the Spanish-speaking community in the U.S. That program is USAGov en Español, the official guide to government information and services in Spanish.

Learn how digital service teams in government navigate through the currents of organizational culture and implement change at their agencies.