Luke Fretwell
GovFresh
California, United States
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Past articles by Luke:
Joyful democracy and the virtuous civic circle
By adopting a simple public engagement framework, we can build a more inspired government, together. → Read More
Civic hacking NASA (astronomy picture of the day)
Building a space photo of the day page using NASA's astronomy picture of the day API. → Read More
RSS government
Defaulting to an open protocol to syndicate government information makes public communications universally accessible. → Read More
Why should I get a .gov?
All government websites in America should end with ‘.gov’. → Read More
Pedigree and public interest technology
The community that supports digital government services should be undeniably representative of everyone. → Read More
Why and how I built Agile Government Leadership
AGL, which has since evolved into Technologists for the Public Good, was the testing ground for an experiment in what I now call an open civic community of practice. → Read More
California announces new Office of Data & Innovation
The move merges three teams into one broader digital agency. → Read More
GOV.UK says it will shut down its platform as a service offering
Says the closure means continuing to invest in other services, such as GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Pay, GOV.UK Design System, as well as building new platforms like the new GOV.UK Forms product. → Read More
Add image meta tag to USAJOBS posts to increase social media reach
One simple piece of code to the U.S. government's employment website could go a long way in increasing the visibility of job opportunities. → Read More
Review: Dignity in a Digital Age
Congressman Ro Khanna thinks different about the role of technology and democracy. → Read More
U.S. government releases 2022 federal IT operating plan
Priorities include cybersecurity, IT modernization, digital customer experience and data. → Read More
Tech, academia share ideas on building a more robust U.S. government open source policy
Topics included a federal open source program office and the role OSS plays in U.S. digital infrastructure. → Read More
Government open data in 2022
Once thriving, now barely surviving. Ideas on how we can breathe more life into it. → Read More
U.S. government, technology community advance open source security collaboration efforts
The White House met with technology companies and organizations to discuss how the federal government and industry can better partner on open source security. → Read More
California is working with six states to re-use code from its vaccine records portal
California Chief Technology Innovation Officer Rick Klau says the state made the code base for the portal publicly available and Washington state re-purposed it for its own vaccine records website. → Read More
Federal government publishes cybersecurity incident and vulnerability playbooks
The playbooks are in response to the White House Executive Order (EO) 14028: Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity focused on removing barriers to sharing threat information. → Read More
Defense Innovation Unit publishes responsible AI guidelines
The Defense Innovation Unit published Responsible AI Guidelines to help the Defense Department operationalize ethical principles for artificial intelligence. → Read More
Data Coalition makes recommendations to the Chief Data Officers Council
Response to a Chief Data Officers Council call for public feedback on how the federal government can best leverage data. → Read More
Public service bravery: Michael Lewis' The Premonition shows what it takes to fight a pandemic
In The Premonition, as he tends to do, Michael Lewis turns everyday people willing to tell us what we need to hear at a critical societal moment into a cast of characters we can't help but cheer on, but also leave wishing the world had more brave voices such as these. → Read More
Open security controls: NIST officially releases OSCAL 1.0.0
The National Institute of Standards and Technology officially released Open Security Controls Assessment Language 1.0.0, a federal government effort to standardize authorization packages and streamline security reviews using a common machine-readable language. → Read More