Resource Format: Article: Blog
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From Pen to Processor: Training AI to Translate Handwritten Housing Applications: A FormFest 2025 Profile
A profile on FormFest spearker’s Barry Roeder, Barabara Deffenderfer, Glenn Brown, and Izzie Hirschy-Reyes highlighting how the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority and its partners use AI and human-centered design to streamline paper housing applications.
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Monitoring Customer Feedback & Implementing Improvements in New Jersey: A FormFest 2025 Profile
This FormFest profile spotlights the New Jersey State Office of Innovation’s Feedback Widget team, which collects resident input across state websites to improve services and empower agencies to act on real-time feedback.
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Elevating Empathy Over Bureaucracy With AI Agents: A FormFest 2025 Profile
This FormFest profile highlights Riverside County’s pilot of AI-powered interviews that streamline benefit applications, reducing bureaucratic burden on families in crisis while freeing caseworkers to focus on human connection.
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Human Centered Design to Improve Civil Court Form Accessibility in Michigan: A FormFest 2025 Profile
This FormFest profile highlights Rachael Zuppke and Molly Graham’s work to redesign Michigan’s civil court forms using human-centered design, making them more accessible for people who must represent themselves in critical cases like eviction, family law, and guardianship.
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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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Launching a Central Design System in the Government of Canada: 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.Â
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Designing government services that work together: Five lessons from the U.K.
This blog post shares five key service design lessons from U.K. experts Lou Downe and Sarah Drummond, offering practical guidance for building more connected, user-centered government services in British Columbia.
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Don’t Fight Paper With Paper: How To Build a Great Digital Product With the Change in the Couch Cushions
The story of Andrew Petrisin and the FLOW system demonstrates how the U.S. DOT successfully overcame barriers in government tech by building a collaborative, user-centered logistics platform that provided value to stakeholders during the 2021 supply chain crisis.
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Climate resilience requires equitable access to quality green jobs. Saint Paul is making strides.
This article highlights how the City of Saint Paul and Ramsey County are advancing equitable access to climate-resilient green careers through their participation in TOPCities.
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Embedding Disability Equity into Efforts to Advance Upward Mobility
This article emphasizes the need for local leaders to prioritize disability equity in advancing upward mobility, addressing systemic barriers that hinder disabled individuals' escape from poverty.
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Building Bridges: The Power of IT-Digital Service Collaboration in Arizona’s Government Service Delivery
To kick off the Digital Service Network’s (DSN) summer event series, Let’s Get Digital, the DSN heard from the State of Arizona on their efforts to transform government services through a strong collaboration between information technology (IT) and digital service functions.
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Transforming The City of Boston’s Procurement: Cultivating Strategic Relationships for Streamlined Solutions
The second event in the Digital Service Network’s summer event series, Let’s Get Digital, focused on the City of Boston’s transformative journey to streamline its procurement processes.