A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide

because it’s operating as a paid service, 18F priorities are those of government customers rather than the White House (though the White House is occasionally a customer as well). If you join USDS or one of the state-level digital services, you can guess based on administration priorities what you might be working on, but 18F works on needs agencies themselves identify and collaborates intentionally with agencies that want to advance their digital practices.