The Digital Benefit Network's Digital Identity Community of Practice held a session to hear considerations from civil rights technologists and human-centered design practitioners on ways to ensure program security while simultaneously promoting equity, enabling accessibility, and minimizing bias.
Innovators inside and outside of government are working to improve access to the social safety net using data, technology, and design. This report highlights innovations carried out by The Rockefeller Foundation’s Data and Technology grantees from 2018 to 2021, including extraordinary efforts to meet the challenges of the pandemic. Those grantees are: Benefits Data Trust, Code for America, Georgetown University’s Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, U.S. Digital Response, and the Digital Innovation and Governance Initiative at New America. In 2020, these projects secured more than $200 million in benefits for close to 100,000 people across at least 36 states, and helped millions more through policy change, training, and guidance.
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.
This report outlines a dozen fintech and civic tech organizations working across fourteen safety net programs to show what’s possible when modern technology is married to a consumer insights perspective.
This presentation from Steph White, Cross Enrollment Coordinator at the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services offers an in-depth example on implementing cross enrollment with WIC and general tools for cross enrollment.
A modern system that helps people learn about, apply for, and gain access to affordable housing. Bloom Housing is an open source platform that digitizes the process of finding and applying for affordable housing, turning a time-consuming paper process into a 15 minute activity from one's smartphone or computer.
This design system accessibility checklist ensures that all components and design tokens meet or exceed the WCAG 2.1 AA standards, aligning fully with Government of Canada accessibility requirements.
An event recap from one of FormFest 2024's closing main stage session featuring speakers from the City of Portland, Oregon and New York City, New York.
This user guide provides step-by-step instructions for families in Iowa to find licensed child care providers online based on location, schedule, and program preferences.
