mobile apps

A view of an iphone showing the new NHS COVID-19 mobile phone application after the app went live on Thursday morning in London, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. A new report group says digital contact tracing apps, artificial intelligence and other tech tools that European governments rolled out to combat COVID-19 failed to play a key role in solving the pandemic and now threaten to make such monitoring widely accepted. The nonprofit research group AlgorithmWatch said Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 that the health surveillance technologies many countries deployed were often adopted without enough transparency, safeguards or democratic debate. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

What government can learn from marketers

Greg Schlichter of TransUnion says it’s difficult to know why eligible people are not participating in government programs designed to help them. But…

Commentary

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Current, former Hill staffers say centralized authority needed to modernize Congress

Congress

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Program Support Center, HHS, phone, computer

How to fix the festering problem of federal contact centers

Technology

A user holds a Samsung Tab S3 Android tablet, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, during a press briefing in New York. The new tablet will come with many of Samsung's fire-prone Note 7's features, including an S Pen stylus and a richly colored screen. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Recent travel guidance for using government devices gives best practices in unsecure countries

Cybersecurity

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021, file image from video, Jeff Zients, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president., Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, chair of the COVID-19 health equity task force, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Andy Slavitt, senior adviser to the White House COVID-19 Response Team,, appear on screen during a White House briefing on the Biden administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington. (White House via AP, File)

GAO: Agencies could’ve been more transparent in pandemic response OTA’s

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2019, file photo, passengers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. The chief of the TSA said Monday, July 1, that travelers should see only a slight increase in checkpoint wait times over the four-day July 4 holiday weekend despite the diversion of about 350 employees including screeners to the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

TSA halts employees from using TikTok for social media posts

Air Force announces new ways of learning digital skills, working on faster apps

Air Force

F5 Networks: Protecting any app, any device, anywhere

Federal Tech Talk

Apple + VA? The very idea sounds cuckoo

Tom Temin Commentary

Education Dept. goes mobile with student aid program app

Technology

Oracle: Modern cloud for a modern government

Federal Tech Talk

GSA: Saving money on IT services

Megan Schmith, director, Enterprise Application Development & Platform Strategy at the General Services Administration, joins host John Gilroy to discuss…

Federal Tech Talk

Cora Han: FTC issues mobile health app guidance

The Federal Trade Commission has issued guidance for mobile health app developers to help them stay in the rails of a half dozen laws and maybe hundreds…

Federal Drive

Jacob Parcell: Government’s mobile app community 1,200 strong

Federal Drive

The federal government has an informal but large and active community of interest devoted to building and improving public-facing mobile apps. The community is 1,200 strong. Jacob Parcell, manager of mobile programs at the General Services Administration, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what the community of interest works on.