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Governments at all levels have been using GitHub for some time now to build better, more accessible websites, publish laws and data, and even collaborate on policies themselves. Today we’re…

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Governments at all levels have been using GitHub for some time now to build better, more accessible websites, publish laws and data, and even collaborate on policies themselves.

Today we’re proud to announce the launch of government.github.com, a website dedicated to showcasing the amazing efforts of public servants and civic hackers around the globe.

government.github.com

The site also features an up to date list of all the city, state, and national government organizations on GitHub. Don’t see your local government listed? Tell them why they should be.

GitHub Government community

If you’re a government employee that has a story to tell, the entire site is open source.

Happy open governmenting, and look for your local government posting on GitHub sometime Soon™.

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Ben Balter

Ben Balter

@benbalter

Ben Balter is Chief of Staff for Security at GitHub, the world’s largest software development platform. Previously, as a Staff Technical Program manager for Enterprise and Compliance, Ben managed GitHub’s on-premises and SaaS enterprise offerings, and as the Senior Product Manager overseeing the platform’s Trust and Safety efforts, Ben shipped more than 500 features in support of community management, privacy, compliance, content moderation, product security, platform health, and open source workflows to ensure the GitHub community and platform remained safe, secure, and welcoming for all software developers. Before joining GitHub’s Product team, Ben served as GitHub’s Government Evangelist, leading the efforts to encourage more than 2,000 government organizations across 75 countries to adopt open source philosophies for code, data, and policy development.

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