Federal agencies have a new resource to help them make content and services available anytime, anywhere, and from any device–the federal Mobile Code Catalog sponsored by the Digital Services Innovation Center. This catalog is hosted on GitHub (more on why that matters in a moment). Here, agency developers looking to jump-start their efforts can find source code [...]

Solar System fans, space shuttles are not the only way you can visit a planet! In July 2012, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA developed a mobile app called “NASA Be A Martian”, which allows you to become a Martian citizen on planet Mars. A Martian citizen can explore images, videos and animations on an [...]

The Internal Revenue Service recently released an update to their IRS2Go mobile app. One of the new features of the app, available on the Android and iOS platforms, is that it detects whether a user’s device is set to English or Spanish and delivers the app in that language. Other resources available on IRS2Go include: [...]

The National Park Service offers 3 mobile apps to create mobile experiences at 3 specific parks available for both the Android and iOS platforms. NPS National Mall App – As cherry blossom visitors give way to the summer travelers, visitors can download the NPS’s National Mall App providing visitors with a handheld map and customizable tour plans based [...]

The U.S. Department of State has released a mobile app that informs and educates potential foreign service officers about a diplomatic career. The app provides access to more than 500 retired Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) questions that test your knowledge of U.S. government and culture, world history, technology, economics and many other topics. In [...]

One way federal agencies create Mobile Gov products is through third party development. Some agencies use platforms like Challenge.gov to get the word out to developers and there have been 3 mobile app challenge awards so far this year. Last week the mWomen Design Challenge announced winners. Supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development [...]

Eighty-five percent of people surveyed in five countries said they’d go without water rather than do without their mobile apps according to a mobile app behavior survey recently released by Apigee that showed 50% of US respondents couldn’t last four hours without their apps. Some of the tasks respondents would be unable to complete without their apps [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) has developed a tablet app for their Amber Waves magazine which showcases research and analysis on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America. Available as a free download for both Android tablets and Apple’s iPad, the magazine will be updated quarterly [...]