A Year in the Life of a PIF
As a Presidential Innovation Fellow in my second year, I often get asked by the newer class of PIFs coming in, “What does a successful PIF year typically look like?”
News and Updates
Innovative work, news, and ideas from people and teams in government
In this webinar, Freddie Blicher, an analyst for the Digial Analytics Program, will discuss how to think about sessions and unique pageviews in reporting and content analysis.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the DAP
2019
Deep Dive: Using Data Technology + Innovation for Lyme Disease
A 14-week sprint delivered digital tools that used federal open data to address Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
In her path to becoming a product manager, she found the flexibility to explore new approaches to managing the product while periodically shaping her role into something that worked for the team. — via Office of Natural Resources Revenue
We’ll discuss how to document and publicize your formal and informal plain language work — teaching, training, reviewing, or copyediting.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Plain Language
2019
Go Beyond Coaching and Mentorship and Get Started as a Sponsor
One step beyond mentorship is another practice called sponsorship: action-orientated, deeply invested support that helps others in their long-term professional advancement.
Using Augmented Reality to Teach Kids about Currency
The U.S. Currency Education Program used research, prototyping, and user-feedback to develop a mobile app to teach young students about money.
How should designers collect data and how can they use that data to inform their work? Dalia El-Shimy, UX Research Lead at Shopify’s Montreal Office, will share how her team uses mixed methods research in support of its design decisions.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Digital.gov + TTS Research Guild
2019
Deep Dive: How a Health Tech Sprint Pioneered an AI Ecosystem
Seven teams created digital tools that help in finding experimental therapies for patients, and for clinical trials to recruit new patients.
Why Our Country Needs More Civic Tech Leaders
Government is a great place to work for technologists, data scientists, designers and entrepreneurs who want to serve and solve problems for the American people.
For this event, DAP has partnered with the fine folks who run the Federal Privacy Council’s Tech Tuesday Series to teach us how to measure, analyze, and improve experiences for users visiting privacy pages on your agency websites.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the DAP
2019
Introducing the 2019 Presidential Innovation Fellows
We are excited to announce our 2019 Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) who have begun their “tour of duty” in American tech.
Designing for Translation
Learn simple planning steps to successfully translate content into multiple languages.
Out On the Front Lines of Civic Tech
A look back at the Presidential Innovation Fellows work with federal agencies in 2018.
In this next installment of the Emerging Technology Leadership Series we will discuss with Laura Manley, director of Harvard TAPP, what agencies should know about better understanding and managing potential risks from promising emerging technologies.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the ECTO
2018
This is an opportunity to discuss what agencies need to know about current issues in emerging technologies for IT modernization and form consensus on inter-agency collaboration and resource development, and shape initiatives that empower teams across government.
Hosted by Digital.gov and the ECTO
2018
Join us for our traditional winter finger-food potluck where we’ll discuss the Clarity 2018 conference and plan out our 2019 meetings.
Hosted by Digital.gov and the Plain Language Community of Practice
2018
The U.S. Digital Service has been using Instagram to tell stories about their teams, and the significant strides they are making alongside partner agencies. — via U.S. Digital Service
An introduction to usability testing, why it’s important, and how to talk about things that aren’t required to do a usability test. — via 18F
We will discuss the Federal Plain Language Report Card and how to address the issues the report card brings up.
Hosted by Digital.gov and the Plain Language
2018
