Intended Audience: Local/Municipal Government: Legislative Branch
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Seattle Executive Order 2025-03: Making Information Inclusive in Writing and Design
This Executive Order mandates citywide actions to make government information more inclusive, accessible, and understandable through digital accessibility and plain language initiatives.
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Learning from Young Adults to Improve Public Benefits for All
This report explores how public benefit systems can better support young adults by addressing the barriers they face in accessing and maintaining vital services like SNAP, Medicaid, and WIC.
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Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
This book presents a blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can utilize digital technology to solve pressing twenty-first century issues.
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Case study: Designing trauma-informed services
This case study is about a project in the City of Philadelphia with the Office of Homeless Services (OHS) from January 2018 to September 2019.
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Making a Successful Shift to Digital-first Government
As they transition to providing more services online, there are ways governments can get creative working around talent shortages and entrenched bureaucracies.
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Why Governments Should Prioritize UX for Everyone
Through our research understanding the government digital service field and what workers in this field need, we want to help strengthen those existing roles and establish more pathways for promotion and career support, as well as help other teams recognize the value of these skills and create new roles.
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NYC HOME-STAT Research Insights Report
This overview journey map of street homeless outreach reflects the business process, and worker and client experience during the period January–April 2016 from initial observation, contact, case management, and placement in permanent housing. The map is displayed in eleven high-level sections, each with individual sub-level sections. Summaries and details for all the sections are presented in the subsequent pages. Each dot represents an individual or agency. Each cluster of dots represents a service interaction.
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OpenFisca: Write rules as code
OpenFisca provides a syntax for writing Rules as Code.
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A Gov How-To Guide For Recruiting User Research Participants
The U.S. Digital Response (USDR) developed a guide for recruiting user research participants for user research in a government setting.
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City of Boston Interim Guidelines for Using Generative AI
Interim guidelines for the use of generative AI in the City of Boston, MA.
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Digital Identity in Public Benefits
In this updated primer, the DBN describes how identity proofing and authentication show up in public benefits applications and outlines equity and security concerns raised by common identity proofing and authentication methods.
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What is Digital Identity?
In this updated primer, the DBN introduces the concept of digital identity, and provides brief snapshots of digital identity-related developments internationally and in the U.S.