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Justin Herman

Emerging Citizen Technology Inter-Agency Lead

Justin Herman leads the U.S. General Services Administration's inter-agency Emerging Citizen Technology Office, coordinating and supporting emerging technology programs among 320 federal, state and local government agencies, including Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation, Virtual/Augmented Reality and Social Technologies. This program works with experts on emerging disruptive technologies that operationalize data and finds practical use cases for their application in government by engaging agencies, industry, civic organizations and Congress.

Justin sits on the White House's National Science and Technology Council subcommittee for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He's been recognized as Fedscoop's 2017 Tech Champion of the Year, as one of the five people reshaping Washington DC by Capitol File magazine, and by Washington Life magazine as one of the most accomplished young leaders in the Capitol.
Digital Government

IFTTT: Your digital duct tape

IFTTT's developer platform can fuel everything from open archives to wearable devices with government application programming interfaces.

Modernization

A better, more social government in 2014

The General Services Administration's social media program manager has a short list of signals to watch.