Check out case studies, reports, blogs, and other resources on how local and state governments across the country are modernizing their delivery.
The city’s digital service division used early successes to build a solid reputation in government, which has helped the team accrue long-term support for bigger projects, one official says.
Keith Wilson, a talent engagement manager at U.S. Digital Response, discusses our new Digital Service Toolkit and the evolution of digital service teams in state and local government.
Shelby County's election office replaces chalkboards and sticky notes with USDR's HelpLine Election Incident Manager, giving staff a searchable record of every call that comes in on election day.
Flipping the usually burdensome RFP process on its head helped CAFF build a process for the long-haul.
Adopting a simple case management system helped one state labor department decrease workloads for case workers and accelerate processing for claimants
USDR emerged from a surge of our partners’ health-related needs in March 2020. In September 2020, USDR recognized that we had an opportunity to make our individual engagements reusable in order to help communities with their COVID-19 response at scale.
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After a year of anticipation, we were witness to a highly complex and decentralized COVID-19 vaccination launch that left many frustrated but, eventually, vaccinated.
As Alyssa Levitz leaves her Technologist in Residence position at U.S. Digital Response, she reflects upon what drove her to volunteer in the first place — and where the journey took her.
USDR’s unemployment insurance team has been hard at work over the past year supporting 10 states with their benefits systems, using design, plain language, communications strategy, software development, and more to get benefits to eligible claimants faster, and make agency employees’ jobs easier.
At U.S. Digital Response, we have partnered with workforce development agencies in nine states — and counting — to help them improve their Unemployment Insurance (“UI”) websites, benefits portals, and processes to better serve their constituents.
USDR’s partners share a goal of establishing COVID-19 vaccinations as a social norm that is both acceptable and regarded as collectively beneficial. Examining their communications through an equity lens is essential to meeting this goal.