Two of the biggest annual Congressional + technology events are both happening this week. On Wednesday, the Library of Congress will host a public forum on Congress.gov, and Thursday is the Congressional Hackathon. All the details are below
Continue Reading August 21, 2024
Technology ideas for Congress?
The Congressional Hackathon is three weeks away. In anticipation, I’m gathering ideas from congressional staff and the public on what tools and apps should be available inside the Legislative branch. What is your genius idea? Should there be a tool that allows staff to automatically schedule meetings with outside groups at free times on their […]
Continue reading... August 13, 2024
RSVP for Congressional Hackathon 6.0
Congress announced the Congressional Hackathon 6.0 will take place on September 19th from 1-6pm. Follow this link to RSVP. Here’s the announcement:
Continue reading... August 4, 2024
CRS building out data analytics capabilities
A recent solicitation from the Congressional Research Service provides insight about the tools and technology being developed by the Legislative branch agency.
Continue reading... July 29, 2024
The House Clerk’s technology project timelines
The transcript from House Admin’s hearing with the Clerk of the House was published this past week. It contains our first view of the questions for the record asked at the hearing, and there’s a lot of interesting Q&A. They cover the sunset of the advisory committee on the records of congress, a timeline for […]
Continue reading... July 29, 2024
Improving committee video access and archiving
Video capabilities for House Committee proceedings is the subject of an RFI originally published on June 20th and supplemented on July 22nd. It’s focused on the “potential to host and livestream official Congressional hearing videos, and to provide public access to archived hearing videos.” Comments are due by August 30th.
Continue reading... July 1, 2024
House Asks for Feedback on Its Collaborative Legislative Drafting Study
The House of Representatives is asking developers and the general public for ideas concerning the House’s interest in collaborative legislative drafting. Collaborative legislative drafting is where multiple political legislative offices, internal expert offices and agencies, and outside stakeholders (from federal agencies to civil society to interest groups) are able to view and make suggestions on […]
Continue reading... June 14, 2024
Recap of Congressional Data Task Force Meeting on June 6, 2024
The Congressional Data Task Force held its second quarterly meeting on Thursday, June 6, 2024. The agenda and other resources are available online and we expect video and slides will be published soon. The next Congressional Data Task Force meeting is scheduled for December 12, 2024.
Continue reading... May 30, 2024
CDTF Meeting Set for June 6, 2024
The next Congressional Data Task Force meeting will take place from 2-4pm ET on June 6, 2024. The public is welcome to attend in person or virtually. More information, including a link to RSVP and a (forthcoming) agenda, is here.
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