"This year, the General Services Administration will be taking another significant step forward in making secure communication the default for federal web services by automatically enforcing HTTPS in modern web browsers for newly issued executive branch .gov domains and their subdomains."
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"The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has recently released an application programming interface (API) and a beta website. The purpose of the OpenFEC API is to support full-text and field-specific searches on FEC data while the beta website provides campaign finance data and guidance for Federal elections.
The code for both the API and website are on GitHub and freely available to the public."
"At DigitalGov, we’ve been evangelizing the importance of preparing to go mobile-first to better serve our audiences as they reach the mobile-majority, as well as pushing the idea of web performance as a key metric for agencies to focus on.
Soon, there will be more tools and open source code made available to help agencies through upcoming updates to The Draft U.S. Web Design Standards with the 1.0 release coming this Winter, along with an enhanced focus on Web Performance."
"For the past two years, 18F has had the pleasure of working with the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor. WHD has been with 18F at the forefront of digital transformation and has been an outstanding early adopter.
One of our latest initiatives has been an Agile Delivery Services Blanket Purchase Agreement (Agile BPA) Task Order to create the initial version of a web application tool for the Section 14© certificate application process." Via 18F
"What can Federal agencies do to increase the number of APIs that are offered to the public? One solution might be adopting 'PhD APIs.'
PhD APIs are so named because these APIs use artificial intelligence and deep learning to analyze unstructured raw data to transform the data into API-friendly data-streams."
"Online content is experiencing such exponential growth that IT leaders are estimating digital traffic will go from over a zettabyte this year to 2.3 ZB per year by 2020.
But this growth is not without its downside. Advertisements, viral content, and sponsored content have such click-through power that the most innovative and exciting research missed out on audience views.
So how do you reach an audience with so much competition? Enter social media."
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"New innovations in the use of data and evidence can help service providers achieve measurably better outcomes. While data and evidence can drive transformative impact for those most in need, they are rarely used to their potential because of a lack of capacity and access among service providers.
How do we accelerate adoption of these tools that can help service providers achieve their missions and better serve those in need?
One promising opportunity is for government and p...hilanthropy to more intentionally and frequently direct considerable technical assistance (TA) resources to help service providers use data and evidence to achieve better outcomes."
Via The White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC) blog
"The DigitalGov University (DGU) webinar, Improving Website Findability with Actionable Analytics and Content Analysis, is more than just the typical webinar for web developers and designers.
It takes on the viewpoint of the audience of the targeted site in order to improve upon it. It’s a powerful and invaluable method that anyone with browser access can use to build the best web experience."
"The USA.gov team wants to share our 2017 predictions with you! We asked staff members about their goals for USAGov and all of government digital services and we got plenty of great ideas." Via the USAgov blog
"Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the first-ever mobile application for RegInfo — RegInfo Mobile.
RegInfo.gov, a website that provides information about the status of agency regulatory actions and other related items, has been around for more than a decade now. With today’s launch, we’re bringing this information to the palm of your hand." Via the OMB blog
"After four years of research and development, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a groundbreaking new security guideline that addresses the longstanding problem of how to engineer trustworthy, secure systems — systems that can provide continuity of capabilities, functions, services, and operations during a wide range of disruptions, threats, and other hazards.
In fact, I think that Special Publication 800–160, Systems Security Engineering, is the most important publication that I have been associated with in my two decades of service with NIST.
I want to share what led me to this conclusion." Via the NIST blog, Taking Measure
"For more than 60 years, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has been tracking Santa on Christmas Eve.
NORAD Tracks Santa's multilingual responsive website is live and there are Santa Tracker native apps available on Android, Apple, and Windows platforms!
As part of its engagement approach, the NORAD team has really taken up messaging and video as part of the Santa tracker experience. They have Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools, and will also leverage “Santa Cams” late on Christmas Eve so users can see where Santa is making his way across the U.S."
