This is a very small detail in that post but it captures quite well what officialdom is to me, what separates GSA and 18F from other digital efforts: the inclusion of the “tribal” scale in the list of levels of authority. 18F makes things so that many people can use the Internet including, explicitly, the administration of First Nations.<p>I’ve complained a lot about how US-based company do not thing about non-US users enough (that common rant is obviously not applicable to GSA, although American abroad, immigrants and foreign visitors probably quality) but in that rant, I have forgotten the original Americans. Shame on me.
I have never heard of any start-up asking “What about First Nations? Do we support Cherokee alphabet? Is there a Sioux exception for the law that we are enforcing in that form?”