A blog post highlighting how youth employment interns contributed to shaping and co-designing the Youth Connector project by leading research, feedback sessions, and design testing to ensure the platform reflects youth needs.
A11y Jam session focused on how local governments are advancing DOJ accessibility compliance using practical, resource-conscious strategies across high-impact digital services.
An internal overview presentation showcasing Austin Transportation and Public Works’ Data & Technology Services team, its structure, values, and approach to delivering modern digital government services.
This guide is a practical introduction to Digital Service Teams (DSTs) for state and local governments. It is designed to help leaders interested in standing up new government DSTs understand what they are, why they exist, and how they are structured, staffed, funded, and more.
This toolkit outlines actionable changes for government practitioners looking to improve the accuracy and accessibility of the questions on their forms that collect information about a user’s gender.
Drawing on the Beeck Center’s research on government, nonprofit, academic, and private sector organizations that are working to improve access to safety net benefits, this report highlights best practices for creating accessible benefits content.
There are frameworks available that could inform the standardization of communicating rules as code for U.S. public benefits programs. The Airtable communicates the differences between the frameworks and tools. Each entry is tagged with different categories that identify the type of framework or tool it is.
A modern system that helps people learn about, apply for, and gain access to affordable housing. Bloom Housing is an open source platform that digitizes the process of finding and applying for affordable housing, turning a time-consuming paper process into a 15 minute activity from one's smartphone or computer.
This bill authorizes the U.S. Digital Service to make a grant to a state, Indian tribe, or local government to establish or support a team of relevant experts dedicated to modernizing the delivery of government services to the public through information technology. A state, tribe, or local government may receive up to two such grants.