Prioritizing Equity in Government-Led Innovation Programs
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.
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 Weekly Ship: What It Is, Why It’s Useful, and How To Create Your Own—The weekly ship has been a staple of 18F projects for years. It is a way to engage partners, inform teammates, and reflect on our work.— via 18F
Navigating ATOs—Authority to Operate (ATO) processes work differently at different federal agencies. As a technology and design consultancy inside the United States government, 18F has worked on ATOs at many of them. We are still learning and experimenting, but there are definite patterns we have seen work well across multiple agencies.— via 18F
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.
Document Accessibility: Getting From 5,000 to 0—Our approach to making 5,000 documents on onrr.gov accessible. We’re steadily making progress towards getting all of our documents 508 compliant. It seemed like an insurmountable challenge, but with a little bit of prioritization and coordination, we’re chipping away at the incompliant debt we had accumulated.— via Office of Natural Resources Revenue
Leaders of the Lab-to-Market (L2M) Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem Prize Competition share their experience running a federal prize competition.
Learn about the U.S. Geological Survey’s Usability Collaboration Area in this short interview with the group’s organizer.
Introducing the U.S. Digital Corps—GSA, with the White House, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), has launched the U.S. Digital Corps, a new two-year fellowship offering a new path to public service for early-career technologists. To build a highly-skilled U.S. Digital Corps that represents the diversity of the United States, the U.S. Digital Corps will recruit passionate, mission-driven technologists from undergraduate programs as well as alternative training pathways such as apprenticeships, bootcamps, and certificate programs.— via General Services Administration
GSA Future Focus: IT Innovation—Federal IT innovation programs can improve mission effectiveness and also reduce long-term risk and cost. In this month’s post from the Emerging Technology Office at GSA, learn more about creating a successful IT innovation program for your agency.— via General Services Administration
This article highlights unique tips related to digital content, audience reach, video posting, and strategic communication, that were shared by Rob Flaherty, the Director of Digital Strategy at the White House, during the Digital.gov event, Digital Strategy at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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