GSA to Launch Gov App Challenges Discussion

On June 29, the General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services will begin publishing a list of 10 challenges facing federal agencies developing a mobile presence.

The office will publish one challenge online each day, along with an open forum for agencies to discuss the challenge and offer tips. The challenges list is the second phase of Mobile Gov, a GSA program aimed at promoting the development of mobile apps in government. In later stages, Mobile Gov aims to establish a set of standards and best practices for government mobile apps so the government can be more deliberate and rational about its rollout of mobile apps than it was about the proliferation of government websites in the 1990s.