Open-Sourced Pilot to Make US Government Info Available via Intelligent Personal Assistants Now Underway

From the DigitalGov Blog:

The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Emerging Citizen Technology program, part of the Technology Transformation Service’s Innovation Portfolio, launched an open-sourced pilot to guide dozens of federal programs to make public service information available to consumer Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) for the home and office, such as Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, Google Assistant, and Facebook Messenger.
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While this first phase of the pilot includes read-only use of public data, agencies and providers are discussing plans to expand it in future phases. Government and the tech industry are collaborating on this pilot to improve its outcomes, however, both have the option to accept or decline the proposed concepts at any point in this pilot.

Read the Complete Blog Post
Learn More About the Pilot via the Project’s Github Page

• List of Programs Participating

Note: As of today (April 25, 2017) the Law Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, and National Library of Medicine are participating in the pilot.

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