Resource Format: Video: Conference Presentation
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code 
Community Insights at the Cross-Sector Rules as Code Roundtable
In this video, Digital Benefits Network Senior Director Ariel Kennan presents highlights from the Cross-Sector Insights From the Rules as Code Community of Practice report released in February 2024. The Cross-Sector Rules as Code Roundtable on February 22, 2024 was hosted by Rules as Code Community of Practice at the Digital Benefits Network.
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Digitizing Policy + Rules as Code 
Creating Open Source Legislation as Code
In this presentation, Pia Andrews explores how open source legislation as code can be a public utility to increase transparency, and enable better implementation and testing of government systems.
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Communications 
Plain Language 101
Jack Ding from the NYC Mayors Office for Economic Opportunity gives a brief training on plain language writing.
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Automation + AI 
The Equitable Tech Horizon in Digital Benefits Panel
Hear perspectives on topics including centering beneficiaries and workers in new ways, digital service delivery, digital identity, and automation.This video was recorded at the Digital Benefits Conference (BenCon) on June 14, 2023.
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Human-Centered Design 
Lightning Talks at BenCon 2023
Lightning talks on innovative ideas, approaches, and pilots to understand and improve benefits delivery. This video was recorded at the Digital Benefits Conference (BenCon) at Georgetown University on June 14, 2023.
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Human-Centered Design 
Recoding America at BenCon 2023
Jennifer Pahlka, Deputy CTO in President Obama’s Administration and author, shares her new book, Recoding America on how government must be equipped for digital delivery in order to meet ambitious policy goals. This video was recorded at the Digital Benefits Conference (BenCon) at Georgetown University on June 14, 2023.
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Automation + AI 
Unpacking the White House blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
On December 5, 2022, an expert panel, including representatives from the White House, unpacked what’s included in the AI Bill of Rights, and explored how to operationalize such guidance among consumers, developers, and other users designing and implementing automated decisions.
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Human-Centered Design 
Using human-centered design and low-code tech to inform unemployment insurance policy implementation
U.S. Digital Response partnered with the Department of Labor to design a human-centered, low-code solution for efficient retroactive unemployment benefit determination.
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Human-Centered Design 
Making Our Systems See People
Code for America CEO introduces the Safety Net Innovation Lab in a TED Talk, their initiative to work with state governments to reimagine and rebuild delivery of accessible and equitable benefits. This article also includes the video of Renteria’s talk and a transcript.
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Human-Centered Design 
Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means: Professor Don Moynihan
Professor Don Moynihan discusses how administrative burden is an effective tool to make it difficult for people to access certain types of benefits, noting that this is particularly harmful to communities of color.