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) [...]

USDA’s National Cooperative Soil Survey is an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver science-based soil information for the entire United States. The SoilWeb app is a portable version of the USDA’s online interface to USDA-NRCS digital soil survey data. The app is available on both the Android and iPhone [...]

Believe it or not, there are government apps ready to assist citizens during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend! Here are some common Turkey Day scenarios with the apps that can help. Thanksgiving Travel– If you are traveling by plane, you can check MyTSA developed by the Transportation Security Administration to find airport wait times, items you [...]

The USDA Animal and Plant Inspection Service released the Save Our Citrus iPhone App to allow people to report citrus disease when they see it.  The app is currently only available on the iOS platform. The USDA describes the app as such: The Save Our Citrus app is a free iPhone application from the United [...]

The Smokey Bear App shows you how to safely build campfires and other camping saftey tips from anywhere and any device. Produced by the U.S. Forest Service, the app is available on the iOS and Android platforms. It is also accessibile via mobile website.  According to the Forest Service: Get Your Smokey On. With Smokey [...]

Ask Karen is mobile! Now you can get all of your food safety questions answered on the go. From your web-enabled mobile device, you can browse food safety information, send email and call a toll-free number. If you are using an iPhone, iPad or Android device you can web chat live with a food safety [...]

If you are ever wondering about a product’s safety in the store, you can easily find if it has a safety recall with the Product Recalls App. The app allows you to scan a product’s bar code to see if it has a recall and find other product safety information. The App is available on the Android platform and the [...]