Resource Format: Article: Blog
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Youth How Do Children and Society Benefit from Public Investments in Children?
The federal government's investments in children are crucial in addressing poverty and have long-term benefits across multiple domains, such as health, education, and economic stability, illustrating how support in one area can lead to positive outcomes in others.
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Engineering + Software Development 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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Product Management The Product Model in Government
The article suggests that applying a product model to government agencies can enhance service effectiveness and public impact.
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Policy Beyond hunger: The role of SNAP in alleviating financial strain for low-income households
Many low-income households lack the savings to weather financial shocks like layoffs, and SNAP plays a crucial role in helping them manage essential expenses during difficult times.
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Management Methods for Leading a Modern Government
The Modern Government Leaders program brought together federal executive innovators to share best practices and drive service delivery and process modernization.
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Human-Centered Design Building a culture of customer experience across government
The federal government is working to improve customer experience through human-centered approaches, as seen in the 2021 executive order establishing interagency teams to focus on pivotal life experiences. Lessons learned from these efforts emphasize the importance of embracing risk, fostering partnerships, and keeping end users at the center of the design process to enhance the delivery of government services.
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Human-Centered Design How Login.gov uses roadmapping to build trust with its partners and the public
Login.gov created a first-of-its-kind, publicly-visible program roadmap and shares tips on how other programs can build their own roadmaps to improve transparency.
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Procurement Keys to a Healthier Digital Future: Interoperability, Open Protocols, and Tech Governance
This research brief summarizes the ideas and recommendations from sessions with dozens of cross-sector stakeholders within the technology ecosystem to identify conditions for better, healthier, more secure digital ecosystems that could help guide the next generation of open protocols and platforms.
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Automation + AI Learning the Importance of Applying Human-Centered Design to Government AI Projects
Takeaways from a workshop focusing on applying human-centered design to government artificial intelligence (AI) projects, led by Elham Ali, Researcher from the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation.
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Digital Identity Decoded: Digital Identity in Public Benefits (Webinar)
In this webinar, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Digital Benefits Network explored key terms related to digital identity, and provided ecosystem-level context on how authentication and identity proofing may show up in the online benefits experience and impact clients. Presenters also shared a list of resources, including guidance from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), introductory materials, and other research to support participants in continued learning.
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Automation + AI Updates to the OECD’s definition of an AI system explained
In 2023, OECD member countries approved a revised version of the Organisation’s definition of an AI system. This post explains the reasoning behind the updated definition.
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Automation + AI Parking signs and possible futures for LLMs in government
Government agencies adopting generative AI tools seems inevitable at this point. But there is more than one possible future for how agencies use generative AI to simplify complex government information.