Ideas

How to Drive Federal IT Performance Using Customer Experience

Federal employees have a customer story too, and federal CIOs and IT need to listen to them.

Emerging Tech

DHS Has a Plan to Make You Stop Hating Airport Security

The agency is looking at ways to speed up passenger screening while improving security from "curb to gate."

Digital Government

U.S. Digital Service Will Teach You How to Buy the Latest Tech

Federal employees can learn best practices for digital procurement in a new certification program.

Ideas

Let’s Flip the Script on Customer Experience

Customer experience is about more than customer satisfaction.

Modernization

Better Government Websites Build Trust with Citizens, Silicon Valley Lawmaker Says

Rep. Ro Khanna's customer-experience focused bill would require agencies to go all digital by 2020.

Modernization

How Younger Workers Update Agency Tech and Vice Versa

It’s not millennial entitlement, said a top CIA technologist.

Modernization

Bill Would Set 2-Year Deadline for Agencies to Get Digital

The 21st Century IDEA would require agencies to have a digital option for all paper-based forms and in-person interactions.

Digital Government

Mulvaney Targets Consumer Bureau's 'Yelp'-Like Complaint Portal

Acting director encourages bankers’ argument against posting unvetted criticism.

Digital Government

Citizens First

How the government plans to prioritize customer experience.

Digital Government

IRS Says Online Tax Systems Are Back In Business

Agency teams worked through the night to restore services, the acting administrator said.

Cybersecurity

Taxpayers Get Extra Day To File After IRS Online Tools Go Down

The IRS extended Tax Day to midnight April 18 after unidentified outages took down key online tools Tuesday.

Ideas

How Form Automation is Democratizing Government Services

Technology can help make services accessible to vulnerable and disadvantaged citizens.

Digital Government

How the IRS Cut Tax Season Headaches by 19 percent

The agency's early outreach efforts appear to be paying off.

Ideas

Here’s What Lies Ahead for the Citizen Service Landscape

Intelligent virtual assistants and artificial intelligence will transform the future of federal contact centers.

Ideas

Citizens Support Increased Data-Sharing and Technology Innovation to Enhance Security

The bottom line is they want their data protected.

Digital Government

Bill Would Create Federal Customer Service Standards

And once set, it would bake them into agency performance plans.

Emerging Tech

What Are You Looking At? Social Security Wants To Know

The agency is looking for eye-tracking technologies to improve the user experience on its websites.

Ideas

Branding the Federal Customer Experience

If experience is everything, federal agencies need to to take a holistic view of how they're serving citizens.

Digital Government

Congress Faces Government Funding That Runs Out Friday

Lawmakers have been working on an omnibus spending bill but it has yet to be introduced.

Digital Government

For 10 Years, I Read the Comments

Farewell to my stressful, dispiriting, but occasionally awesome life as an internet comment moderator.