Digital Government

Was the HealthCare.gov Fiasco ‘The Best Thing that Happened to Digital Government?'

William Eggers, government consultant and author of “Delivering on Digital,” has a different view than most on the plagued rollout of the website.

Digital Government

GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service to Revamp Customer Service to the Tune of $1.3M

CenturyLink will provide hosted contact center and voice-over IP services to FAS as part of its contact center modernization project.

Digital Government

Veterans Calling VA's Crisis Line Can Finally Get Through. Here’s Why.

A team of techies and customer-service professionals starting tackling the problem in 2015.

Digital Government

VA Experiments with Real-Time Dashboard of Vets' Feedback

The agency wants feedback whenever and however veterans want to send it.

Digital Government

8 Tips for Jared Kushner and the New Innovation Office

Think about holistic, unified and scalable public services.

Digital Government

Meet the Agency that Tops All Organizations in Customer Satisfaction

“It’s a combination of our structure, training, our people and our connectedness to the mission that keeps it going."

Modernization

Over a Third of Dot-Govs Fail Mobile Device Speed Tests

A recent study found 92 percent of sites fail at least one metric related to load time, security, mobile friendliness and accessibility.

Digital Government

‘Worst to First’: How the U.S. Postal Service Cleaned Up Employee Discrimination Complaints

USPS tackled its backlog of complaints and now provides that service to more than two dozen other agencies.

Ideas

6 Strategies for Digital Transformation that Puts Citizens First

Agencies have made great strides in customer experience over the past couple of years.

Ideas

How Digital Services Engagement Centers Play a Crucial Role in Customer Experience

Digital services engagement centers serve as the connective tissue between customer service channels.

Emerging Tech

Most Citizens Want A ‘Siri’ For Government Services

People want 24/7 service, even from the federal government, a new survey shows.

Ideas

Make 2017 the Year of a Digital-First Federal Government

Everything the federal government does should be thought of digitally first.

Ideas

Delivering Efficient Citizen-Centered Government

Consider the following five strategies to create a citizen-centric government and to drive governmentwide efficiencies.

Ideas

Delivering Great Digital Government in the Trump Era

How can agencies transform how digital services are delivered and meet the rising and constantly changing expectations of citizens?

Ideas

Customer-Centric Government Won’t Be Great Again in 2017 and Other Government Tech Predictions

Expect cyber and data to remain in the spotlight, while areas like customer service will see less momentum.

Digital Government

First Rule of User Experience: You Do Talk To the User

“We assume we know what our customers want. But in many cases, we don’t."