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November 2, 2015

USEITI: What we learned and where we’re headed

By Greg Boone

During Sunshine Week, we wrote about our progress on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, or EITI, an international coalition organized here by the U.S. Department of the Interior and a multi-stakeholder group that includes representatives from nonprofits, academia, industry and local governments. Since March, the 18F team has worked with the USEITI team to process research on the current state of the project as well as the next steps for the U.S. as a candidate country for the global initiative.

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October 29, 2015

Welcome to betaFEC: campaign finance for everyone

By Emileigh Barnes

As the 2016 presidential election heats up, here at 18F we’ve been working with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to make campaign finance data more accessible to the public. Today, we launched betaFEC, the first piece in a complete redesign of the FEC’s online presence. We were excited to work on a project that allowed us to delve into intricate campaign finance data, plain language, and the FEC’s first API.

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October 26, 2015

Announcing the criteria for 18F's first micro-purchase contract

By V. David Zvenyach

Today, we're beginning our micro-purchase experiment. Here are the details of what we are looking for and our acceptance criteria for the final submission.

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October 22, 2015

Preventing technical debt

By Chris Cairns , Sarah Allen

In the final part of our series on technical debt, we talk about ways to minimize accumulating bad or unnecessary technical debt in the first place.

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October 21, 2015

Every Kid in a Park: Why we can’t stop smiling

By Emileigh Barnes

Our projects are iterative, which means we keep working on them after they launch. In keeping with that practice, we’ve kept a close eye on everykidinapark.gov, which went live September 1. We’re excited to share a few of our improvements and updates with you today.

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