Digital Benefits Network

🌟 Digital Benefits in the News makes it easy to stay up to date! Read the October news 📰 https://bit.ly/4hrUn9Y   Catch up on latest digital benefits news: ⛈️ Disaster-related public benefits  💻 24 states to use DirectFile next year   📢 Beeck Center awarded $8 million grant from Ballmer Group 💡 Latest on AI and Digital Identity in public benefits

📣📣📣 The new Digital Government Hub is live!!! Very grateful to the Digital Benefits Network & full Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation team for the tremendous partnership and leadership in developing and refining the #DigitalGovernmentHub, with the public human services ecosystem at the center. 🙌🏼 💕Thank you to everyone who shaped the hub’s development. So many of you did user interviews / testing, took surveys, watched live demos, and shared questions and ideas with our team to further sharpen this tool. That feedback resulted in lots and lots of updates and upgrades — hope you like it! I think it is pretty powerful (and pretty). And extra powerful special shout out to APEX Advisors! 💕🙌🏼

BenCon 2024 may be behind us, but we’re still celebrating our Civillians - Rachael Carson, Eesha Patne, and Lena Selzer - who led two impactful sessions at this year's Digital Benefits Conference in Washington, D.C. Here's a quick look at the sessions we contributed to: 1️⃣ Improving Digital Service Delivery: A deep dive into how customer experience principles can transform public benefit programs and improve digital access for all. 2️⃣ Strategies for Engaging Lived Expertise: Centering the voices of beneficiaries to ensure public services are accessible and equitable for all. It was an incredible event full of inspiring speakers and rich conversations. A big thank you to Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and everyone who made it happen! Were you at BenCon 2024? We'd love to hear your biggest takeaway! Drop it in the comments. 👇

🍂 Fall into the DBN October Digital Digest https://bit.ly/47YCN8W 🚀 NEW! Digital Benefits Hub is now the Digital Government Hub! 📅 We want to hear from you by October 16! Take Digital Identity Survey ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e-g4ks-q 💡Learn more about the Digital Identity Community of Practice on the new Hub https://lnkd.in/emmPBY2Z

The Digital Benefits Network and the APHSA -- American Public Human Services Association curate a selection of benefits-focused resources, projects, and implementation tools on the Digital Government Hub. https://lnkd.in/enJ93-T8 Delivering public benefits and human services can be accessible, effective, and equitable if you have the right tools and processes in place. Check out the #DigitalGovHub for the essentials.

We combined the resource libraries of the Digital Benefits Network, APHSA -- American Public Human Services Association and the Digital Service Network and created the new Digital Government Hub (#DigitalGovHub) — your first stop for design, data, and technology examples and resources to power your government service delivery. Check out the new site at https://lnkd.in/eG2P2r_n

We combined the resource libraries of the Digital Benefits Network, APHSA -- American Public Human Services Association and the Digital Service Network and created the new Digital Government Hub (#DigitalGovHub) — your first stop for design, data, and technology examples and resources to power your government service delivery. Check out the new site at https://lnkd.in/eG2P2r_n

The Digital Benefits Network and Massive Data Institute are presenting at APHSA -- American Public Human Services Association's ISM Conference and sharing insights from our #Policy2Code Prototyping Challenge. ▶︎ Tues, Oct 8 ▶︎ 10-11 am ▶︎ Room Summit 6 See you there! #ISMPHSA24 #RulesAsCode #GovTech #GenAI

So proud of Code the Dream's work to make sure that all families can access the help they need. As AI advances, we need more innovations like this -- tools built by all of us to benefit all of us.

Did you know that the DBN recently announced a new Community of Practice (CoP) on digital identity in public benefits? Earlier this summer, we announced a new project with NIST and CDT to adapt NIST’s digital identity guidelines to public benefits contexts. (Read more: https://lnkd.in/g3x7Vxf5). This new community will provide opportunities for more open-ended engagement on digital identity in public benefits. The community will bring together stakeholders working across sectors and benefits programs to address key concerns and challenges related to digital identity and promote the delivery of public benefits to all eligible individuals, including vulnerable populations. Please fill out our community survey if you’re interested in joining and/or want to inform the direction of this community. Responses will be collected through October 16 and the survey should take 5-7 minutes to complete. https://lnkd.in/gj7zpVkW  Visit our landing page to learn more. https://lnkd.in/gnejFPCV