Build your bot policy now and work with your digital team or vendor to implement it.
By: Luke Fretwell
Posted: February 24, 2026
Build your bot policy now and work with your digital team or vendor to implement it.
By: Luke Fretwell
Posted: February 24, 2026
Ideas, opinions, observations.
Build your bot policy now and work with your digital team or vendor to implement it.
Optimizing digital government for AI and other machines.
AI will expedite government services moving from aesthetic design to machine-readable data.
My civic tech retrospective.
Repository bureaucracy and how the general public can help preserve government technology assets.
Topics compressed for easier download.
A brief-ish explainer of open data.
A brief-ish explainer of open source artificial intelligence.
A brief-ish explainer of Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism.
A brief-ish explainer of the new web accessibility law for state and local governments.
Chats with our contacts.
Author, catalyst, & champion for public engagement with space, science, & technology
What's on our radar.
A global movement of community-focused events that foster civic collaboration and innovation
By: GovFresh
Posted: July 21, 2025
A global movement of community-focused events that foster civic collaboration and innovation
By: GovFresh
Posted: July 21, 2025
A global movement of community-focused events that foster civic collaboration and innovation
By: GovFresh
Posted: July 21, 2025
A global movement of community-focused events that foster civic collaboration and innovation
By: GovFresh
Posted: July 21, 2025
Product demonstrations.
Project ScanGov co-maintainer Luke Fretwell gives a demo of the latest updates.
State of California UX Design and Web Development Manager Artem Khomishen gives a demo of ca.gov.
Data.gov Product Manager Tim Lowden demos the new metrics dashboard.
Deep dives.
How a short-term, experimental project scaled digital service innovation and impact across the State of California.
A deep dive on open civic organizations.
Notes and deep work.
GovFresh research notes on OpenACR Editor.
GovFresh research notes on the AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook.
GovFresh research notes on the Declaration for the Future of the Internet.
GovFresh research notes on public artificial intelligence.
GovFresh research notes on the Open Source Institute's Open Source AI Definition.
Talking with the people at the intersection of design, technology and democracy.
Government's history, relationship and evolution with hackers and hacking.
