Have a question about Mobile Gov? Want to help improve Mobile Gov efforts? This Thursday’s Mobile Gov Wikithon from 2-4 in downtown D.C. will offer you the chance to meet Mobile Gov innovators and get tips on mobile product ideation and improvements to your current and future mobile products. Our theme will be the same [...]

Last week, Pew released new data on the prevalence of smartphone ownership. The survey data, collected between August 7-September 6, 2012, found that smartphone ownership has increased from 35% in May of 2011 to 45%. Further the study found: More American adults own smartphones than own feature cell phones—that is, the phones that can be [...]

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 [...]

Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel highlighted the new Census Bureau app “America’s Economy” in his Digital Government Strategy update today. Here is what he had to say: Today marks three months since we released the Digital Government Strategy (PDF/ HTML5) – as part of the President’s directive to build a 21st Century Government that delivers better services to the American people. [...]

[youtube width="450" height="400"]HYJLOWv8dso[/youtube] The US Census blog Random Samplings announced that the Census  just released a new API that includes both 2010 Census data and American Community Survey statistics on every neighborhood in the US. According to the blog: This information-centric approach is outlined in the recently released Federal Digital Strategy, and promises to be [...]