Yesterday marked three months since the release of the Digital Government Strategy and agencies have been making great strides in meeting the milestones toward building a 21st Century Government. In his blog, Building-blocks of a 21st Century Digital Government, Steve Van Roekel said Executing on this vision of government cannot happen alone. To provide the [...]

The U.S. Census Bureau recently launched the America’s Economy app as part of an effort to increase and improve access to their statistics. The app is currently available on the Android and iOS platforms. Census describes the app: Take the pulse of the U.S. Economy straight from your phone. The America’s Economy app provides real-time [...]

We will be having our next Mobile Gov Wikithon tomorrow Tuesday, July 31 at 3p.m. in downtown D.C. This will be the most hackathon-like wikthon we’ve ever had! USASearch and the Mobile Gov are teaming up to cohost the “USASearch” Mobile Gov Wikithon. The USASearch team will be coding updates to the USA Search function AND working on [...]

Travelers can now access U.S. Custom’s wait times for the 23 busiest international airports from anytime and anywhere. The “Airport Wait Times” mobile website uses historical data from U.S. Custom’s and Border Protection flight processing times, commonly referred to as wait times, to give users wait estimates. The mobile website is accessible on any platform [...]

Busy week in mobile gov. First, the White House released a memo from the President [pdf] announcing a ”comprehensive Government-wide strategy to build a 21st century digital Government that delivers better digital services to the American people.” In order to ensure that agencies make the best use of emerging technologies in serving the public, I hereby direct each agency [...]

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Last week, we moderated a session on what the research shows on mobile use–and our regular discussion about whether people prefer mobile web over native apps. Our speakers, Aaron Smith from Pew Internet and David Metcalf from Univ. of Central Florida, had pros and cons for both approaches, but ultimately agreed that, It Depends. eMarketer [...]

A quick video on trends in practices for agencies, shifts in agency aproaches and predictions about the Mobile Gov landscape from Gwynne Kostin, Director Mobile in GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. [youtube width="400" height="300"]ggbKaeH3fuU[/youtube] Resources Get your thinking “unstuck” and check out the resources to help you smartly deliver anytime, anywhere, any device [...]