Andres Bascumbe

February 28, 2017

All, Insights

The Intercept: Congress May Lack Technical Expertise To Properly Investigate Russian Hacking

Andres Bascumbe

February 28, 2017

All, Insights

The Intercept writes about the congressional capacity to investigate Russia's involvement in the 2016 election.

Maurice Turner

February 15, 2017

All, Meet the Fellows

Meet the Fellows: Maurice Turner

Maurice Turner

February 15, 2017

All, Meet the Fellows

There could not be a more exciting time to be a conservative coming into Congress: Republicans hold the majority in the House and Senate for the first time in over a decade.

JC Cannon

January 25, 2017

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

What I Learned: My Year as a Congressional Innovation Fellow

JC Cannon

January 25, 2017

All, Meet the Fellows, In the News

What I Learned: My Year as a Congressional Innovation Fellow

After spending more than 30 years in the technology industry, I decided to leave it behind and join the policy world.

Andres Bascumbe

December 29, 2016

All, Insights

WTOP: New company aims to help vets shift skills to civilian careers

Andres Bascumbe

December 29, 2016

All, Insights

WTOP reports on the difficulties finding job opportunities after serving in the military.

Travis Moore

December 8, 2016

All, Meet the Fellows

Announcing our 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellows!

Travis Moore

December 8, 2016

All, Meet the Fellows

Announcing our 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellows!

Nearly 200 individuals, from from academia, civil society, government and big and small tech companies applied to join the program.

Travis Moore

September 27, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Application Deadline Extended to Sunday, October 2, 2016

Travis Moore

September 27, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Application Deadline Extended to Sunday, October 2, 2016

We've extended the deadline for applications for the 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellowship by 48 hours! Applications now close Sunday, October 2, 2016. Get yours in by 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time on 10/2 to be considered for our next class of fellows.

Travis Moore

August 23, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Recruiting Events throughout September

Travis Moore

August 23, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Join TechCongress in San Francisco, Washington D.C. and online throughout September to learn about the 2017 Congressional Innovation Fellowship.

Travis Moore

August 15, 2016

All, About TC, Insights

Congressional staff should be as diverse as the U.S. Here’s why they're not (and how we’re trying to build a program that is).

Travis Moore

August 15, 2016

All, About TC, Insights

Congressional staff should be as diverse as the U.S. Here’s why they're not (and how we’re trying to build a program that is).

Congress and tech don’t have a whole lot in common, but they do share the unfortunate truth that neither looks like or represents the diversity of the United States.

Travis Moore

July 12, 2016

All, About TC

Lessons from the CivicX Accelerator

Travis Moore

July 12, 2016

All, About TC

Storytelling, better KPIs and value proposition design: these are some of the things I learned from the startups in the CivicX accelerator program.

Travis Moore

July 12, 2016

All, Insights

Permanent Innovation Fellows (part II)

Travis Moore

July 12, 2016

All, Insights

Kudos to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans for taking a big step towards codifying the PIF program. It's another sign that digital government can rise above the fray and partisan politics, regardless of who's in the White House.

Andres Bascumbe

June 16, 2016

All, Insights

Roll Call: Staffer Raise Might Pay for Daily Coffee

Andres Bascumbe

June 16, 2016

All, Insights

Roll Call: Staffer Raise Might Pay for Daily Coffee

Roll Call writes about the stagnant rise in congressional staff salaries.

Travis Moore

May 31, 2016

All, About TC

Orientation: What We Learned

Travis Moore

May 31, 2016

All, About TC

Congress is a unique place. Our challenge was to build an orientation program that could convey the basics about Congress in a short time—its procedure, its politics and its people, and adding some basics about current tech policy issues. This is What We Learned.

Andres Bascumbe

April 26, 2016

Insights

Recode: A Silicon Valley-led third party is not going to restore faith in government

Andres Bascumbe

April 26, 2016

Insights

Recode writes about Silicon Valley's potential to work with the U.S. Government by presenting a third-party alternative in the 2016 Presidential election.

Travis Moore

April 5, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections, About TC

Selections: What We Learned

Travis Moore

April 5, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections, About TC

Between November 1 and November 20, we conducted three rounds of selections, including one round of interviews with finalists and a series of reference checks. Here’s What We Learned about selecting tech talent for Congress in that very busy 19 days.

Travis Moore

March 31, 2016

All, About TC

Joining the CivicX Accelerator

Travis Moore

March 31, 2016

All, About TC

I couldn’t be more excited: we've been selected for the Points of Light Civic Accelerator! The program (CivicX for short) is unique because it’s focused on helping organizations like TechCongress that are tackling public-interest problems.

Travis Moore

March 21, 2016

All, About TC

SXSW, and Working Within Institutions

Travis Moore

March 21, 2016

All, About TC

Last week I attended South By Southwest Interactive to sit on a panel about millenial engagment in tech policy. Here’s what I think was interesting about the panel: each of us talked about how we work within existing institutions to influence, improve, or modernize.

Travis Moore

March 10, 2016

All, About TC, Commitment to DEI

Recruitment: What We Learned

Travis Moore

March 10, 2016

All, About TC, Commitment to DEI

TechCongress is starting a series of posts describing What We Learned from our first year of the organization and the Congressional Innovation Fellowship. Here's What We Learned about recruitment.

Travis Moore

March 3, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

Convening Technologists

Travis Moore

March 3, 2016

All, Fellowship Recruitment and Selections

The content of the fellowship doesn’t end once fellows find their placement. A key goal of the program is for fellows to learn about Congress and become better acquainted with the policymaking universe.

Travis Moore

February 29, 2016

All, Meet the Fellows

Fellows Find their Placement

Travis Moore

February 29, 2016

All, Meet the Fellows

Last week our fellows found their placement in Congress, and we couldn’t be happier about where they’ve landed.

Travis Moore

January 20, 2016

All, Meet the Fellows

Meet the Fellows!

Travis Moore

January 20, 2016

All, Meet the Fellows

We're excited to announce our first class of Congressional Innovation Fellows! Learn more about the fellows and the start of the fellowship below.