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On The Road to Innovation
on July 16, 2019
For the past few months, Presidential Innovation Fellows have traveled across the nation to learn more about their projects. Meet Fellows [Buoyant Crawdad]* and [Blossoming Tiger]* who share more about their work at the VA and NIST.
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How 18F and PIF work together in agencies
on May 16, 2019
Two teams working together to help agencies become more effective at meeting the needs of citizens.
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Presidential Innovation Fellows bringing new approaches to nation’s biggest challenges
on July 3, 2018
As the application process for the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program ramps up, a number of applicants have been asking: What is it like to be a Presidential Innovation Fellow? Two Fellows, Dr. [Patient Mallard]* and [Reasonable Rattlesnake]*, share the origins of their collaboration and a typical day in the life of a Fellow.
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Presidential Innovation Fellows extend deadline for Fall 2018 applications
on June 6, 2018
The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program has extended the application deadline to June 24 to help bring the best outside technology talent into government. Join entrepreneurs, designers, data scientists, engineers, developers, and other technologists for a 12-month tour of duty tackling some of our nation’s biggest challenges.
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Presidential Innovation Fellows now accepting applications for Spring 2017
on December 2, 2016
If you’re looking for a way to have an impact on the digital services the government provides to the public, now’s your opportunity. The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is currently accepting applications for the Spring 2017 cohort.
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code.gov is the next milestone in federal open source code
on November 7, 2016
Last week, U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott announced the launch of code.gov, another important milestone in the federal government’s adoption of open source code. The new site provides access to more than 50 open source projects from 13 federal agencies.
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Buying better digital products part 3: Mapping user stories
on August 4, 2016
The Digital Acquisition Accelerator, a program run by the Presidential Innovation Fellows and 18F, launched in early June. Through this program, cross-functional teams from two agencies — the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Federal Bureau of Investigation — are learning to build two products each using modern product management practices. During week two of the Accelerator, the teams applied what they learned in an inception workshop. This is the third in a series of three blog posts that describe the step-by-step process of the workshop.
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Buying better digital products part 2: Setting the product vision and strategy
on July 26, 2016
This is the second in a series of three blog posts that provide a step-by-step guide to how we led the inception workshop.
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Buying better digital products part 1: Proto-personas and understanding the problem
on July 21, 2016
Recently, 18F launched the Digital Acquisition Accelerator, a 6-8 month program aimed at creating change agents within two agencies to inspire a cultural shift within those agencies. This is the first in a series of three blog posts that provide a step-by-step guide to how we led the inception workshop.
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3 ways for digital acquisition teams to work better
on July 13, 2016
As we work through this pilot phase of the Digital Acquisition Accelerator, we’ll be sharing our work and the lessons we learn. We hope this will help other interested teams follow along and also give the public on opportunity to give us feedback on our pilot. Here are three techniques that our team practiced with the FBI and Treasury teams during the recent kickoff of the pilot.
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Two agencies participating in the Digital Acquisition Accelerator pilot
on June 15, 2016
Today, we’re thrilled to announce that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of the Treasury are the first two agencies to participate in the Digital Acquisition Accelerator Pilot.
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Announcing the launch of the Digital Acquisitions Pilot
on March 10, 2016
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) released a memorandum today that encourages agencies across the federal government to pursue innovative approaches to acquiring goods and services. Given the growing importance of digital acquisitions, OFPP is also launching a Digital Acquisitions Pilot along with the memo.
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USA.gov launches vote.USA.gov to help citizens register and connect with states
on September 22, 2015
One of the most important rights of American citizens is the right to vote. It is the foundation of our democracy, and in many ways, the basis of our government. This is why the team at USA.gov is excited to announce the launch of vote.USA.gov.
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President Obama makes innovation fellowship program permanent
on August 18, 2015
We’re immensely happy to hear that the president has issued an executive order ensuring the Presidential Innovation Fellows program has a permanent place in our government.
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How digital humanitarians responded to the Nepal earthquake
on June 11, 2015
When Nepal was hit with a devastating earthquake on April 25, the folks at MapGive and others in the OpenStreetMap community sprang into action, organizing volunteer mappers and coordinating with mapping teams on the ground in Kathmandu.
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O*NET today and beyond
on March 11, 2015
The de facto source of skills information, both inside and outside the federal government, is O*NET - the Occupational Information Network, a data collection program that populates and maintains a current database of the detailed characteristics of workers, occupations, and skills.
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New resources at CareerOneStop
on March 2, 2015
When the Employment and Training Administration’s CareerOneStop team set out to redesign the career, training, and job resources sections of the CareerOneStop site, they didn’t immediately begin rewriting code. Instead, they embraced a user-centered approach that focused on the user experience (UX). Read on to learn more about their findings.
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Say hello to the new Presidential Innovation Fellows
on September 15, 2014
The third class of Presidential Innovation Fellows was sworn into duty last week by former CTO Todd Park. We are excited to welcome them into the 18F family.
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A few notes on NotAlone.gov
on May 9, 2014
At the end of April, Vice President Biden, while rolling out the final report of the White House's 90-day Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, announced the launch of NotAlone.gov, a website built by 18F and the Presidential Innovation Fellows.
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Ask us (almost) anything
on April 1, 2014
GitHub for Government did their very first AMA (Ask Me Anything) last week with Philadelphia's Chief Data Officer, [Limber Deer]*. After some prodding by GitHub's Head Bureaucat, Ben Balter, 18F decided to use this new avenue to do some Q and A.
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Uncle Sam wants YOU to be a hero hacker
on March 27, 2014
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is now accepting applications from creative, energetic policy hackers, entrepreneurs, user experience experts, designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, system architecture wizards, data wranglers, and more to serve their tours of duty to radically improve the delivery of government digital services.
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