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

By Andre Francisco
November 7, 2016 open source presidential innovation fellows general services administration code.gov product launch

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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California takes a new approach to procurement

By Alla Goldman Seiffert , Robin Carnahan
October 28, 2016 state and local practice acquisition services procurement video health and human services

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

By Chris Goranson , Emileigh Barnes , Phoebe Espiritu
October 26, 2016 content design user-centered design

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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Three small steps you can take to reboot agile in your organization

By Chris Goranson , Michael Torres , Kristy Singletary
October 25, 2016 agile department of commerce national technical information service workshop agency work

This past summer, 18F held an agile workshop for the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. An agency with roots going back to World War II, NTIS is facing a future that requires a strategic realignment towards open data and services.
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Embracing opportunities to improve and innovate

By V. David Zvenyach
October 24, 2016 18f technology transformation services transparency

Today the GSA Inspector General (IG) issued a report that identified areas for improvement, and we are thankful for their oversight. We have made many improvements over the last few months to address the issues outlined in this report and will take all additional actions necessary.
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