In mid-June, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Draft 2019-2020 Federal Data Strategy Action Plan, requesting public feedback from the data community. On July 8th, the Data Coalition co-hosted ...

Labor productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the number of hours worked to produce those goods and services. Productivity and related cost ...

Compared to earlier wage record exchange systems, SWIS enables states to access individual-level information about more program participants, simplifies the query process for states, and enables states to more efficiently ...

While the private sector has struggled with unethical uses of data, government can learn from these mistakes and craft best practices by creating a data framework that is both principled and innovative.

Several states have established bodies to study blockchain technology in the past several years. They range from departmental groups with report deadlines to policy groups meant to bring forward bill ideas.

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released a publication on customer relationship management (CRM). The business practice of CRM has become more important in the last several years as ...

This resource provides guidance for evaluations that use technology as a key part of the intervention being tested. This resource discusses challenges that J-PAL North America has seen in with these types of studies and ...

Through AI-based applications, developers are looking to transform the public sector by automating tasks and much more. But for optimal gain, agencies must make tough choices about where and how to introduce new technologies.

Modular contracting is the practice of breaking up large, custom software procurements into a small constellation of smaller contracts. This resource outlines the factors required before an agency can do this.

The Education Commission of the States created this comprehensive resource outlining Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SDLS) policies in all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.