One way federal agencies create mobile products is through contests on Challenge.gov. The Department of Treasury recently named winners for it’s MyMoneyAppUp Challenge, which it describes: Earlier this year, Treasury and our partners called on Americans to participate in the nationwide MyMoneyAppUp Challenge by submitting their best mobile app ideas and designs to help consumers make smart [...]

You need resources, and we are here to help with an excellent new webinar series to jump start your agency’s digital gov efforts. Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, allow developers to get creative with an agency’s data—from making content mobile ready to innovative mashups. API’s are an important data element agencies need to address when implementing the [...]

You can leap into citizen-facing mobile strategies and other topics at our “Leap Year” Wikithon on Wednesday, February 29th from 3-5! Wikithons are gatherings of Mobile Gov professionals to create and develop content for the Mobile Gov Wiki and discuss various mobile practices. The wikithon theme this time will be DATA and we are looking [...]

Agencies Mobile Gov efforts need the right  technical expertise to build useful products for the public. Makes sense that agencies might think about training to build some in-house tech expertise.  [ht to Sam Bronson] Stanford University–you know that school/high tech incubator on the West Coast–has rolled out a free version of it’s web app development [...]

What do you think would happen when you ask mobile gov innovators to pile into a coffeeshop with their laptops (and tablets) to share their smarts for the good of helping other agencies make gov available to citizens any time and any where? Well, we did just that. In late October, a handful of govies [...]

One way government can produce mobile products is through contests like those on Challenge.gov. We wanted to highlight two agency mobile challenges: First, the Small Business Administration launched the Apps for Entrepreneurs challenge this week. The SBA wants better tools for entrepreneurs and small businesses to navigate the Federal government’s programs, services, and procurement opportunities. [...]

Federal agencies have sought mobile product partnerships outside of their agency in multiple ways. One way to seek new partnerships is to challenge developers to build smartphone apps and other mobile products via Challenge.gov.  The Environmental Protection Agency closed its “Apps for the Environment” challenge this week and recieved 38 app entries. EPA put this [...]

EPA wants developers to help unleash the power of their data and build useful apps. EPA challenges you to find new ways to combine and deliver environmental data in a new app.  In the Apps for the Environment challenge, you have free reign to make an app that uses EPA data, addresses one of Administrator Lisa [...]