Resource Format: Article: Blog
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Summary Report of 2023 RFI on Open Source-Software Security Initiative
The RFI summary report consolidates submissions received from the open-source software community and details twelve activities that members of the OS3I plan—or have completed—in 2024-2025.
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Governor Hochul Announces Initiative to Improve Food Benefit Access for Women, Infants and Children
Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new client feedback initiative in partnership with Code for America to improve New York's WIC program by implementing live online chat to gather input from participants, streamline enrollment, and increase access to healthy food for eligible families.
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Participatory Planning to Build Stronger Early Childhood Policy and Programs
The article explores the importance of participatory planning in policymaking, emphasizing how engaging impacted communities improves program design, equity, and trust in government, with a focus on early childhood education initiatives.
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Hiring, Retaining, and Upskilling Digital Service Talent in Government: Stories and Strategies from State and Local Leaders
This publication from the Digital Service Network (DSN) explores how state and local leaders are tackling the challenge of finding, keeping, and growing digital service talent in government. Through real-world stories and actionable strategies, it highlights how teams are making the case for digital roles, improving hiring practices, and upskilling staff to build a strong, sustainable digital workforce.
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Data Sharing to Drive the City of Philadelphia’s Zero Fare Program: A FormFest 2025 Profile
This FormFest profile explores how Philadelphia leveraged cross-department data sharing to launch its Zero Fare program, auto-enrolling eligible residents in unlimited transit benefits while tackling the challenge of outreach and trust-building to deliver passes effectively.
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Working with the Data You Already Have to Improve Benefits Delivery
This article demonstrates how states can improve public benefits delivery by leveraging existing data systems, even with limited data maturity.
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Real-Time Child Care Data in Iowa: A Digital Service Network Spotlight
DSN Spotlights are short-form project profiles that feature exciting work happening across our network of digital government practitioners. Spotlights celebrate our members’ stories, lift up actionable takeaways for other practitioners, and put the resources + examples we host in the Digital Government Hub in context.
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BenCon 2024 Recap
A recap of the two-day conference focused on charting the course to excellence in digital benefits delivery hosted at Georgetown University and online.
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Hiring Spotlight: Maryland Family and Medical Leave Insurance
The Digital Service Network (DSN) recently sat down with the Maryland Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) team to learn more about an exciting role they’re hiring for.
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Collaborate with the TTS Public Benefits Studio
The Technology Transformation Service at GSA recently created a new Public Benefits Studio to focus on fostering a more cohesive, coordinated experience for the public, across programs.
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Navigating the Sticky Web of Research Compensation
Recommendations and case studies on establishing practices for user research compensation in government organizations.
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User Testing for Community-Focused Design
Example of call for user experience participation from the City of St. Paul, Minnesota.