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As Open Source Goes Mainstream, Institutions Collaborate Differently
18F has quietly become the bleeding edge of the US federal government's adoption of open source software. Read about the benefits and challenges of open source going mainstream...
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Federal Report Highlights The Effects Of Medical Debts On Credit
One in five American consumers — 43 million people — have blemishes on their credit reports because of overdue medical bills, while medical debts make up more than half of collection items on credit reports, according to a newly released federal report. Read More »
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How A Small Group of Entrepreneurs Transformed Government Services
President Obama started with his own White House, recruiting Internet-savvy entrepreneurs to serve as chief technology officer (me), chief performance officer (Jeff Zients), chief information officer (Vivek Kundra) and director for social innovation (Sonal Shah), among other senior positions...
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How GitHub Helps You Hack The Government
On April 9th of last year, someone called Iceeey proposed a change to an obscure document written by the federal government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The document wasn't that important. [...] But this small request was a very big deal. Read More »
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New Federal Database Will Track Americans' Credit Ratings, Other Financial Information
As many as 227 million Americans may be compelled to disclose intimate details of their families and financial lives -- including their Social Security numbers -- in a new national database being assembled by two federal agencies.
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Open Source By Default?
“Over the last ten years, Open Source has become unremarkable. I think that’s a great achievement. We no longer argue about whether it’s secure or not, or whether it’s safe to use. We focus now on how best to use Open Source to get the best value for every tax dollar,” said Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector Group. Read More »
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Open Source Community Gathers For Red Hat Government Symposium
Open source continues to be used in new and innovative ways as federal agencies become more comfortable with the software development philosophy that helps solve common problems with common solutions, said Red Hat Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Public Sector Paul Smith. Read More »
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The White House Big Data Report: The Good, The Bad, And The Missing
Last week, the White House released its report on big data and its privacy implications, the result of a 90-day study commissioned by President Obama during his January 17 speech on NSA surveillance reforms. Now that we’ve had a chance to read the report we’d like to share our thoughts on what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we thought was missing...
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U.S. Digital Services and Playbook: "Default to Open"
About this time last year, I laid out some trends I saw for the coming year in government take up of open source software. Looking back now, it appears those trends are not only here to stay, they are accelerating and are more important than ever. In particular, I wrote that "open source will continue to be the 'go to' approach for governments around the world" and that "increasingly, governments are wrestling with the 'how tos' of open source choices; not whether to use it."... Read More »
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US Government Accelerating Development And Release Of Open Source
I had a chance to catch up with David A. Wheeler, a long-time leader in advising and working with the US government on issues related to open source software...In this interview, we explore the current state of use of open source software by the US government, the challenges of the Federal acquisition system, and what he's excited about as he looks ahead for open source and government....
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Want To Make Digital Government Work? Hire Your Own Coders
The standard way to put proposed new federal rules online is in large blocks of text [...]. By using hypertext and modern Web design, they thought, regulators could make proposed rules more available and comprehensible to the general public and reduce busy work for industry attorneys and activists who spend hours parsing through regulations each day. Read More »
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