Boston shares its CityScore secrets
The city posts the code for its CityScore performance management dashboard on GitHub.
DHS opens software for incident command platform
Code for the Next-Generation Incident Command System used by first responders in emergency situations is now available on GitHub.
White House finalizes federal source code sharing policy
By improving agency access to custom software developed by or for the federal government, the Federal Source Code policy will help reduce duplicative software purchases and promote innovation.
Code for America grows up
Focusing on governance, knowledge sharing and sustainability, Code for America will concentrate on three core areas for civic innovation: healthy communities, economic development, and safety and justice.
Protecting the open source software supply chain
A new report analyzes the quality of software built with open source components and offers recommendations on how to ensure the quality of application development.
GSA recognized for cloud analytics platform
The General Services Administration’s Data to Decisions platform includes tools for collecting, managing and analyzing data.
An undersea drone for developers
Bluefin Robotics’ SandShark combines core vehicle systems with a modular payload area and an open development platform.
San Francisco funds open source voting
Mayor Ed Lee’s proposed budget includes $300,000 towards planning and development of an open source voting system.
Open source, COTS-based voting tech
Free & Fair’s services aim to make elections more verifiable, transparent and secure.
NASA releases searchable tech transfer database
The database includes thousands of expired NASA patents now in the public domain that are freely available for unrestricted commercial use.
Open data tapped for economic development, law enforcement
State and local governments are finding different ways to leverage their open data.
18F automates compliance documentation
The Compliance Masonry platform lets users actively interact, update and generate assurance reports for any type of risk management framework.
An important fix for the federal open source software policy
Clarifications to the draft Federal Sourcing Policy would ensure that government-off-the-shelf solutions are not encouraged over commercial solutions.
18F surfaces code for 35 useful projects
To make it easier for agencies, businesses and the public to find, use and adapt its open source code, the General Services Administration’s 18F digital services group published an categorized list of reusable open source code from 35 of its projects, organized by use case.
18F: Expand Federal Source Code policy to state and local
Extending the policy to cover federally funded state and local programs would help improve digital services, save taxpayer money and reduce time, costs and risks for government.
Research center opens for Arctic data
As the primary repository for Arctic information, the Arctic Data Center will provide scientists with contextually rich data and research tools, such as software, workflows and provenance information.
Secure code before or after sharing?
When agencies release code to open source, should they sanitize it before release or trust to the community to eventually secure it?
Tutorials demo open data use cases
The Commerce Data Usability Project offers tutorials demonstrating how users can get more value from government data.
Machine-readable budget in a human-friendly format
The White House used Socrata’s open data platform to deliver interactive visualizations of the President’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget proposal.
NLM launches MedPix image database
The National Library of Medicine launched MedPix, a free online medical imagery database.
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