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Tracking the U.S. government's progress on moving to HTTPS
January 4, 2017
The White House HTTPS policy generated significant HTTPS adoption in the U.S. government. HTTPS is now used for most web requests to executive branch .gov websites, and the government now outpaces the private sector on HTTPS.
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Charting the future of the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards
December 22, 2016
As part of the latest release of the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards, we updated our design principles to better represent the evolving goals of this project. This update shows how we’re growing our open source community, focusing on experimenting with more complex components and maturing the Standards to be more mobile-focused.
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TTS projects forward Open Government Partnership principles
December 15, 2016
The U.S. Open Government National Action Plans promote the Open Government Partnership’s principles of transparency, facilitating access to government services for the public, and citizen engagement. 18F has worked with several agencies to advance the these goals through projects like DATA Act, eRegulations, USEITI, College Scorecard, and the Public Participation Playbook.
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How to run an efficient meeting
December 14, 2016
Many people spend a significant percentage of working time in meetings. This blog post digs into how to make that time productive and useful (which sometimes means cancelling a meeting that doesn’t need to happen). We cover time management, room management, presentation style, note taking, preparation, next step management, and more.
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Lowering the risk of experimentation with open source code
December 13, 2016
In September, Singapore launched the govBuy Marketplace, adapted from the Technology Transformation Service’s (TTS) Micro-Purchase Marketplace. Both sites are an auction platform designed to connect government teams to small businesses ready to solve small technical problems using open source code. The code that powers both platforms is also open source.
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