Intended Audience: Tribal/Indigenous Government: Agency
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Potential and Progress for Benefits Eligibility: A Recap of Rules as Code Demo Day
Building on our February 2022 report Benefit Eligibility Rules as Code: Reducing the Gap Between Policy and Service Delivery for the Safety Net, the Beeck Center’s Digital Benefits Network (DBN) recently held a convening to share progress and potential in digitizing benefits eligibility and to begin addressing how a national approach could be started.
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NIST Digital Identity Guidelines: Special Publication 800-63, Revision 4, Second Public Draft
This resource provides updated draft digital identity guidelines for identity proofing, authentication, and federation, aiming to improve security, privacy, usability, and equity in digital identity systems.
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Measuring the True Cost of Economic Security
The article presents the True Cost of Economic Security (TCES) measure, showing that over half of U.S. families struggle to meet the comprehensive costs required to thrive, highlighting significant disparities based on family type, location, and race.
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Takeoff Velocity and Rocket Fuel: How to Continue Forward Momentum at BenCon 2024
NYC's My File NYC and New Jersey's unemployment insurance system improvements demonstrate how successful digital innovations can be scaled across various programs, leveraging trust-building, open-source technology, and strategic partnerships.
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Paving the Road to ACCESS: Early Insights from the Aligned Customer-Centered Ecosystem of Supports & Services (ACCESS) Initiative
Through the ACCESS project, key collaborators have shared insights into current and future opportunities for alignment within their agencies, including potential enablers for and barriers to alignment activities.
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AI-Ready: An Evaluation Guide for Health and Human Services Agencies
This is a practical tool designed to help government agencies make informed, responsible decisions about adopting AI technologies.
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De-risking Guide: Budgeting and overseeing tech projects
Guide by 18F explaining how to minimize the risk of policy failure when selecting technology vendors.
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Make RFPs More Equitable
This article provides several suggestions on improving an organization’s RFP.
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The Ad Hoc Research Thinking Field Guide
This field guide is for digital services and technology leaders working at the federal, state, or local government level. It describes a way of applying research approaches to strategic decision making across digital services.
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AI-Powered Rules as Code: Experiments with Public Benefits Policy: Summary + Key Takeaways
This is the summary version of a report that documents four experiments exploring if AI can be used to expedite the translation of SNAP and Medicaid policies into software code for implementation in public benefits eligibility and enrollment systems under a Rules as Code approach.
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Recap: Digital Identity Community of Practice Kick-Off
The Digital Identity Community of Practice kick-off event featured key resources, a new research publication on account creation and identity proofing, and insights from multiple speakers.
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R&D Glossary: Automating Enrollment Proofs
This internal glossary defines key terms and concepts related to automating enrollment proofs for public benefits programs to support shared understanding among product and policy teams.