Digital Government
Here’s How the Pentagon Wants to Use Social Media On the Battlefield
Artificial intelligence will weave open-source and satellite data into useful intelligence in real time, the Pentagon’s No. 2 says.
Emerging Tech
Agencies Try a Tool That Digs Up What Google Doesn't
Parts of the government are using a deep web search engine that teaches itself to return better search results.
Digital Government
Cost of Electronic Access to US Court Filings Faces Major Legal Test of Its Own
Users are charged 10 cents per page to view litigant documents.
Digital Government
White House open-sources chatbot
With 1.5 million messages coming in since the August launch of its Facebook Messenger bot, the White House has opened the code to developers and non-developers alike.
Artificial Intelligence
Elon Musk’s OpenAI Is Using Reddit to Teach AI to Speak Like Humans
The goal of this project is to allow a robot to become smart enough to not only recognize speech, but to also use the data it gathers to formulate appropriate responses on its own.
Ideas
How To Ensure Trustworthy, Open Source Elections
From the perspective of voters, a trustworthy election is one in which they can be confident their votes have been counted as cast and their anonymity has been maintained.
Emerging Tech
White House Unveils Data Sharing Platform for Climate Change Research
A public-private partnership, including Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services, aims to open up climate-related data.
Digital Government
Innovation After Hours: Check Out Nextgov’s Newest Event
We’ve themed our first program in this series of events around open source and analytics.
Ideas
Alexa, How Can Government Adopt Artificial Intelligence Faster?
If I were Alexa, I'd say open source and transparency.
Emerging Tech
The Ultimate Promise of Artificial Intelligence Lies in Sorting Cucumbers
How Google helped a farmer in Japan.
Digital Government
Report: If DOD Doesn't Embrace Open Source, It'll 'Be Left Behind'
Currently, the department uses open source software “infrequently and on an ad hoc basis,” unlike tech companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook that wouldn’t exist without open source software.
Digital Government
HHS Revises Open Gov Policy to be More Open
The agency published the fourth draft of its open government plan.
Digital Government
Report: DOD must embrace open-source software
In a new report, the Center for a New American Security makes the case that DOD is failing to capitalize on the power of open-source software.
Digital Government
Nextgov Ebook: Tech Revolutions: Open Source and the Internet of Things
This ebook features two more recent Tech + Tequila themes: open source and the internet of things.
Digital Government
Federal open-source policy isn't open enough, says tech group
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said the White House's open-source policy is inadequate for transparency and oversight purposes.
Digital Government
Finalized OMB open-source policy takes industry concerns into account
Although it is still sifting through the details of OMB's new policy, one industry group is comfortable with the final product.
Digital Government
White House Drops Final Federal Source Code Policy
OMB says Code.gov, a repository for federal open source software code, is coming in the next few months.
Acquisition
White House releases open source policy
Federal CIO Tony Scott announced plans to make federal software code usable and sharable across agencies, and a pilot program to release some code to the public.
Ideas
How Automation Can Unleash Government IT Innovation
By embracing automation, agencies can free up budget for innovation.
Digital Government