DXO

Category: Government

  • Documentation: Statewide Stay At Home Orders

  • Moderator: “Are We There Yet? Turning Legacy 311 Systems into Agile, User-Centered Digital Services”

    Today I moderated a session at the Code for America Summit. Here’s the session description: Open311 technologies report and track non-emergency issues in public spaces, allowing citizens to communicate to their governments, and governments to respond to their citizens more effectively. And while 311 websites, apps, and even chatbots are now common in cities and…

  • Facilitator at the inaugural Mayors Leadership Institute on Smart Cities

    Facilitator at the inaugural Mayors Leadership Institute on Smart Cities

    Over the last two days I helped facilitate the first Mayors Leadership Institute on Smart Cities of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Here’s a snip from the announcement of the Institute: “The drive to make cities ‘smarter’ is all about harnessing data…

  • Comment on FCC Docket 18-120: Transforming the 2.5 GHz Band

    Comment on FCC Docket 18-120: Transforming the 2.5 GHz Band

    Today I filed this comment with the FCC on 2.5 GHz Docket Opening PN Docket No. 18-120: I am Daniel X. O’Neil, a board member of the Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation (CITF), which is one part of Voqal, a national collaboration of EBS licensees. CITF has been a steward of an important public resource – EBS…

  • Event: Ad Hoc at Code for America 2018

    Event: Ad Hoc at Code for America 2018

    This week Ad Hoc is at Code for America 2018 with 10 team members, four speaking engagements, one product launch, and one happy hour. I created the approach for the conference, developed content strategies for various elements, and ran operations for the week.

  • Publication of The Ad Hoc Government Digital Services Playbook

    Today marks the publication of The Ad Hoc Government Digital Services Playbook, by Kaitlin Devine and Paul Smith, my colleagues at Ad Hoc. The Ad Hoc Playbook “compiles what we’ve learned from four years of delivering digital services for government clients. Our playbook builds on and extends the Digital Services Playbook by the United States Digital Service.” I…

  • Communications: Blue Button Launch at HIMSS Conference

    Today the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched Blue Button 2.0,  a “developer-friendly, standards-based API that enables Medicare beneficiaries to connect their claims data to secure applications, services and research programs that they trust”. Ad Hoc is working to develop this product as a subcontractor. I was responsible for the business development, capture, proposal development, and…

  • New Role: Director of Marketing

    New Role: Director of Marketing

    Today I started a new role at Ad Hoc: Director of Marketing and Communications. Almost two years after I helped create the business development function at Ad Hoc, I am now moving over to kick off the marketing and communications department. Ad Hoc has grown from 6 to 120 people since I started, and I…

  • Blue Button API Subcontract

    Blue Button API Subcontract

    Today Ad Hoc was awarded a subcontract under prime contractor Fearless Tech (8424693) to improve the Blue Button API. Here’s the award notice: cms-blue-button-award-january-218 and here’s the full description: Blue Button Api Contractor Will Be Responsible For The Primary Development Of The Django Server, Implementing A Developer Portal, And Any Other Integral Components Of The Blue Button…

  • Notes for GovTech Checkin at Inaugural Meeting of the Union of Concerned Government Technologists

    Today I helped organize and took notes at the “Now that we’re 8 years or so into the rise of gov tech, how are we doing? ” session at the Inaugural Meeting of the Union of Concerned Government Technologists, held in Oakland. Also: here’s some informal notes from another session, covering the 10 year anniversary of…