August 2017

Do you think Congress needs to be more tech savvy? Then bring your digital knowledge to Washington with a congressional innovation fellowship. The program gives technologists the opportunity to shape federal tech policy through a year-long position in the office of a lawmaker or congressional committee. Applications for the third class of fellows were released on Aug 16. The program bridges the gap between the public and tech sectors by bringing technological expertise to the Hill and instilling technology companies with a better understanding of government. While other groups like the U.S. Digital Service and 18F aim to reduce the executive branch tech deficit, the congressional innovation fellowship focuses specifically on the legislative branch.

In December 2016, mobile devices (smartphone and tablet) accounted for 43 percent of all traffic vs. 36 percent the same time the year before. We already see the same trend through June of 2017 and it will likely accelerate in the second half of 2017.What we discovered is that even though desktop users are switching to total mobile, when we dive deeper into the data we actually see tablet users declining and smartphone capturing the majority of the shift in users from desktop. This trend is already true halfway through 2017. We anticipate smartphone usage to increase more than 37 percent in 2017.