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New website tracks government’s many digital services teams

StateScoop: “Last week, the Digital Service Network at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University published a new online tracker that documents details about government digital service teams across the country. The new Government Digital Service Team Tracker, which was published on the Digital Service Network’s new Digital Government Hub reference website on Oct. 10, so far documents 28 digital services teams, their formation dates, locations, structures, and mandates or enabling legislation, among other information. Along with state-level digital services teams, the tracker includes information about city-level teams and federal teams, such as the U.S. Digital Service and the the General Services Administration’s 18F team. Leaders at the Digital Service Network said the tracker is designed to be a living database that will be continuously updated as new digital services teams emerge, or existing ones evolve. Kirsten Wyatt, senior director of the Digital Services Network, said this resource was one of the most requested from the network’s government and research members. “As more and more governments are standing up [digital services] teams, or considering looking into building a team, they very naturally want to know what’s happening in other organizations,” Wyatt said. “We previously had just a very basic Google Sheet, where we arrayed information about teams that we were aware of. But then, as time went on and as our network has grown, we realized that having something that was more robust and that was really designed to be a living document … would really be a benefit, because it was a question or an inquiry we were getting so often.”

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