Need a last minute Valentine’s Day gift idea? We’ve put together some last minute anytime, anywhere government Valentine’s ideas for your special someone. Need a card? Send a Valentine’s greeting and a handy health tip (like the one pictured) with CDC’s Mobile Health e-card App! Want to dazzle,  but your bank account’s not cooperating? Introduce them to some to the [...]

Learn how to create amazing and engaging Mobile Gov User Experiences during our webinar on Wednesday, February 27 at 1 p.m. EST! Anytime, anywhere government will be used in numerous contexts and requires developers to think about more than just content, security and privacy during implementation. In fact, Smashing magazine has listed 12 elements to consider [...]

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 [...]

In the universe of NASA apps, the agency has two “Astro Apps” that allow users to learn about these programs, missions, their astronauts and to know what it’s like to work on space shuttle and space station crews. Both apps are available on the iOS platform. NASA describes the Astro App: Space Station Crew Did you [...]

With mobile use growing exponentially and federal agencies implementing customer-facing mobile services for the Digital Government Strategy, we decided to put together a Mobile Gov resource “cheat sheet” with concepts and information we think will be helpful for agencies implementing Mobile Gov in 2013. Here’s what Mobile Gov implementers need to know! APIs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) [...]

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register (OFR) have released the Presidential Documents Mobile Web app which tracks the public activities of the President of the United States. The app has user-friendly search capabilities allowing users to access content about the President by searching by date, category, [...]

Comscore just released data that shows the majority of people in the U.S. who own mobile devices, own smartphones. As of the last day of September, 234 million Americans used mobile devices. For the three month average period ending September 2012, 119.3 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones. That amounts to 51.0 percent of [...]

Come celebrate our first year of successful Mobile Gov Wikithons this Thursday at our First Birthday Mobile Gov Wikithon from 2-4p.m. at the Constitution Cafe in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. More details on attending are located here. We held our first Mobile Gov Wikithon last year on October 26 and 10 wikithons [...]