Colorado Digital Service

The Colorado Digital Service is a diverse cross-functional team of senior engineers, designers, product managers, and procurement specialists serving limited "tours of civic service" (six months to two years) in government.

We work alongside dedicated civil servants in the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and across state agencies to develop and improve user-centered solutions to Colorado's most pressing technical challenges.

Listen to Director Kelly Taylor describe what it means to work in civic technology with a glimpse into when the team was first started and how it has evolved. We're excited to welcome more of you to the work.

OUR VALUES

Be curious
Start with the problem, move to action
Be humble
Government was here before us, and it will be here after us
Challenge the status quo

Social justice
Find the truth, tell the truth (inspired by: USDS)
Strength in diversity (inspired by: Protect Democracy)
Government is us, just us (inspired by: Megan Smith)

A YEAR IN REVIEW: SAMPLE PROJECTS

Celebrating our 2020 projects and looking ahead to 2021

Supporting Colorado's COVIDTech response
- - Procuring Differently: How Colorado Used User Research and Active Vendor Management for COVID-19 Technology [case study]
  - COVID19 Contact Tracing - Dr. Justina
  - Exposure Notifications (1 million sign ups so far) and expanding on the work in partnership with the U.S. Digital Response

Helping modernize the technology that manages the child welfare system - 5,600+ direct users, thousands more affected.

Rethinking and evaluating the maturity of software development strategy in government, with a heavy focus on procurement and user experience.

Applied user-centered research and design methods to selecting and procuring a new grant management system for the Division of Criminal Justice that administers 17 grants programs, averaging $60 million to more than 300 grantees across Colorado.