Intended Audience: Local/Municipal Government: Agency
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A Field Guide for Financing Public-Sector Integrated Data Systems and Evaluation
This guide provides practical financing strategies for governments to build, maintain, and expand integrated data systems (IDS) and evaluation capacity using federal and non-federal funding sources.
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New York City Digital Equity Roadmap
This roadmap outlines NYC’s strategy to achieve digital equity by expanding broadband access, improving digital literacy, and fostering cross-agency coordination.
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Document extraction to accelerate application processing
This case study details the development of a document extraction prototype to streamline benefits application processing through automated data capture and classification.
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Responsible Data Practices for Product Equity
This guide outlines ethical frameworks and best practices for responsibly collecting and using demographic and other sensitive data to build equitable digital products.
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Doorway Housing Seeker Foundation UX Research Findings
This presentation shares user experience research on the challenges, priorities, and opportunities for improving the journey of Bay Area residents seeking affordable housing.
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DAHLIA Project Presentation
This 2015 project presentation outlines the vision, research, and product requirements for DAHLIA, San Francisco’s online platform to centralize and simplify affordable housing searches and applications.
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Bridge SF City Spotlight | City of San Francisco & Exygy
This blog post highlights collaboration on DAHLIA, San Francisco's first digital affordable housing portal launched in 2018.
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AI and Government Workers: Use Cases in Public Administration
The report examines how AI deployment across state and local public administration such as chatbots, voice transcription, content summarization, and eligibility automation are reshaping government work.
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Practitioner Picks: Digital Housing Edition
Practitioner Picks is a new quarterly series designed to add fresh resources to the Digital Government Hub’s library, helping people improve government digital service delivery. Each issue spotlights resources chosen by practitioners in a specific service delivery area along with their insights on why these picks are valuable additions to the Hub. In this edition, our contributors round up resources to help bring housing services into the digital age.
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Digital Doorways to Public Benefits: Beneficiary Experiences with Digital Identity: Executive Summary
Led by the Digital Benefits Network in partnership with Public Policy Lab, the Digital Doorways research project amplifies the lived experiences of beneficiaries to provides new insights into people’s experiences with digital identity processes and technology in public benefits. This executive summary gives an overview of the project’s findings.
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Tips and Tricks for Better Forms: A FormFest 2025 Profile
A profile on FormFest speaker Karissa Minnich, a civic design manager with The Lab @ DC, whose innovative approach to redesigning government forms has transformed paperwork into a model of human-centered design.
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Digital Doorways to Public Benefits: Beneficiary Experiences with Digital Identity
Led by the Digital Benefits Network in partnership with Public Policy Lab, the Digital Doorways research project amplifies the lived experiences of beneficiaries to provide new insights into people’s experiences with digital identity processes and technology in public benefits. This report details the project’s findings, directly highlighting the voices of beneficiaries through videos and photos.