How a City in Nevada Eased Telework Pain
For the City of Sparks, Nevada, the first two weeks of remote work hurt a little.
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Best Practices for Making Cloud-Based Automation Click
The result of automation and cloud is a more efficient and effective agency, looking at cloud-based automation as a cycle will help make it fit your agency.
What is an API?
Do you know what an API is, why it helps government and what you need to use them? Find out in this blog, then learn more on GovLoop Academy.
3 Reasons Why SaaS Is the Future of Government Technology
SaaS solutions help local governments offer better, more flexible services to their residents. If recent developments are any indication, partnerships between tech innovators and City Hall will transform the way people think about public services.
Making The Case for API
Let’s face it. We live in an age of constantly changing, ever expanding technologies. But if used properly, APIs can help.
Mobile is Changing the Nature of Public Service
Dr. David Bray, Chief Information Officer of the FCC, speaking to Wednesday’s crowd. Mobile technology is filled with potential. It has the capacity to radically increase organizational response time, interconnectedness, and access to information. But there’s a flip side: it also has the capability to severely undermine privacy and security measures. The impulse, then, mayRead… Read more »
Public Sector Data and Google Maps Powers Trulia Local
Earlier this month Trulia released a fascinating visualisation option using Google Maps. The feature allows users to view property values, home values, rental prices, calculate commute times, schools, identify points of interest, natural hazards and view crime data. In order to power this new feature, Trulia leveraged public sector data from USGS and FEMA. InRead… Read more »
USDA: Another Federal Agency Seeks Input on Digital Strategy
By Dennis D. McDonald The U.S. Department of Agriculture has joined other Federal agencies in seeking input on how to proceed with development of its “digital strategy.” In Seeking Your Input for USDA’s Digital Strategy the USDA’s Amanda Eamich lists for comment 5 “first-move candidates” to make available as web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs): WorldRead… Read more »
Publishing Government Data That Developers Will Actually Use
Despite increasing public support (as well as a number of executive mandates) publishing public data in a machine-readable format is not as simple as pressing the “publish” button. Why? Equally important as exposing the information itself is fostering a vibrant developer ecosystem around it. By making the publishing agency, not the public, responsible for makingRead… Read more »
Access Anywhere – IRS Goes Mobile with Help from GovDelivery
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unveiled an updated version of their smartphone application, IRS2Go, in early February. The app was “designed to provide taxpayers easier access to practical tools and information,” and the update included an application programming interface (API) integration with GovDelivery Digital Communication Management (DCM), which allowed app users to sign up toRead… Read more »