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November 17, 2016

Leadership and innovation at California's Child Welfare Services

By Stuart Drown , Mike Wilkening

This is the story of how the State of California changed direction on a $500 million IT project for Child Welfare Services. To a large degree it’s about technology. But it‘s also about leadership, changing frames for assessing risk, and relationships based on trust.

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November 15, 2016

Modular procurement resources for state and local government

By Mark Headd , Robin Carnahan

Our recent work with state government agencies in California and Mississippi provides some powerful examples of how 18F’s commitment to working and learning in the open can provide enormous benefits — even to states that are not yet working directly with 18F.

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November 7, 2016

code.gov is the next milestone in federal open source code

By Andre Francisco

Last week, U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott announced the launch of code.gov, another important milestone in the federal government’s adoption of open source code. The new site provides access to more than 50 open source projects from 13 federal agencies.

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October 28, 2016

California takes a new approach to procurement

By Alla Goldman Seiffert , Robin Carnahan

The Technology Transformation Service recently held an industry day to talk to the private sector community about our vision, our projects, and how GSA and vendors can work together to bring modern digital services to the federal government. For that event, California’s Stuart Drown recorded a short video talking about 18F’s work with California on their Child Welfare System.

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October 26, 2016

Writing for the web is easy. Writing for users is not.

By Chris Goranson , Emileigh Barnes , Phoebe Espiritu

Government websites are written for an extraordinarily diverse group of users. They come to our websites with different knowledge, backgrounds, and abilities. Fortunately, there are steps we can take to make sure the content we care about reaches the audience we want (and is useful to them).

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