We are Carlos E. Jimenez-Gomez and Shrinivass A.B, lead co-authors of "ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation." I, Carlos E. Jimenez-Gomez, am a public sector digital transformation expert with over 15 years of experience, leading complex technology and innovation initiatives from strategic planning to operational execution, primarily for governments and the justice sector worldwide. I, Shrinivass A.B, am a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Fidelity Investment and an active member of ACM's US Technology Policy Committee, contribution to AI, Accessibility, and Tech Governance.

In today’s world, almost every process or interaction between people and governments requires the use of devices such as computers. Government digital transformation must be completed ASAP. But how to achieve a successful transformation?

We will be answering questions on the ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation, on November 25, 2025 from 1 pm EDT (10 am PDT, 5 pm UTC) to 2 pm EDT (11 am PDT, 6 pm UTC). AMA!

To frame the conversation around the ACM TechBrief on Government Digital Transformation, the document is available for download at:

ACM TechBriefs is a series of technical bulletins by ACM’s Technology Policy Council that present scientifically-grounded perspectives on the impact of specific developments or applications of technology. Read the issue to come prepared with questions!

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We are Carlos E. Jimenez-Gomez and Shrinivass A.B, lead co-authors of "ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation." AMA! (November 25, 2025 at 1pm EDT)

We will be answering questions on the ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation, on November 25, 2025 from 1 pm EDT (10 am PDT, 5 pm UTC) to 2 pm EDT (11 am PDT, 6 pm UTC). AMA!

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We are Carlos E. Jimenez-Gomez and Shrinivass A.B, lead co-authors of "ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation." AMA! (November 25, 2025 at 1pm EDT)

We will be answering questions on the ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation, on November 25, 2025 from 1 pm EDT (10 am PDT, 5 pm UTC) to 2 pm EDT (11 am PDT, 6 pm UTC). AMA!

To frame the conversation around the ACM TechBrief on Government Digital Transformation, the document is available for download at:

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We are Carlos E. Jimenez-Gomez and Shrinivass A.B, lead co-authors of "ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation." AMA! (November 25, 2025 at 1pm EDT)

We will be answering questions on the ACM TechBrief: Government Digital Transformation, on November 25, 2025 from 1 pm EDT (10 am PDT, 5 pm UTC) to 2 pm EDT (11 am PDT, 6 pm UTC). AMA!

To frame the conversation around the ACM TechBrief on Government Digital Transformation, the document is available for download at:

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What’s on your reading list this fall? ACM invites you to be part of the Back-to-School Virtual Bookclub, #ACMBookclub! Running from November through December 2025, chapter members across the globe will be reading together and diving into big ideas in computing and technology. The community-picked title for our inaugural bookclub is by ACM Turing Laureate Tim Berners-Lee.

Summary: Perhaps the most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of technologist. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, he famously distributed his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything—transforming humanity into the first digital species. Through the web, we live, work, dream, quarrel, and connect

In this intimate memoir, Berners-Lee tells the story of his iconic invention, exploring how it launched a new era of creativity and collaboration while unleashing powerful forces that imperil truth and privacy and polarize public debate. With his trademark humor and candor, he recounts how he arrived at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, as a young engineer, and soon came up with the astonishing idea of adding hyperlinks to the then-nascent Internet. His goal was to unleash a wave of creativity and collaboration for the benefit of all—a goal he’s pursued to this day.

The two-month experience will culminate in an exclusive online discussion featuring the book’s author or an ACM expert.

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I am the co-author behind ACM’s TechBrief on Election Security: Risk-limiting Audits. Ask me anything about election security!

TheOfficialACM replied to MarleyandtheWhalers

Risk-limiting audits (the topic of this thread) are all about how to improve security with paper ballots. So a reasonable question for someplace that has paper ballots is "when are you going to do RLAs?"

Without paper ballots, we're back in the world of paperless electronic voting systems, which have been shown to have a variety of security vulnerabilities (discussed elsewhere in this Reddit). So a reasonable question for someplace that has paperless electronic voting systems is "when are you going to retire these machines and what's the plan to replace them?"

I'm not aware of any systematic voting machine election interference, at least in any U.S. election in anything resembling the modern era. If you go back far enough in time, you get plenty of well-documented messy elections. The story of "Landslide" Lyndon Johnson's victory in the 1948 Texas Senate Race is pretty amazing.

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I am the co-author behind ACM’s TechBrief on Election Security: Risk-limiting Audits. Ask me anything about election security!

TheOfficialACM replied to RexButz

It's exceptionally difficult (read: expensive, time consuming) to do a forensic audit of the sort you're describing, and the adversary has an advantage in this game, because they could potentially engineer their malware to erase itself after the election is over.

The goal of RLAs and other kinds of election auditing procedures is to achieve a property called software independence, such that we can gain confidence in the correct outcomes of an election without requiring any confidence that the software is correct.

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I am the co-author behind ACM’s TechBrief on Election Security: Risk-limiting Audits. Ask me anything about election security!

TheOfficialACM replied to PaulSnow

A Reddit AMA is the wrong place to get into the finer points of blockchains, cryptocurrency, and/or public bulletin boards.

Suffice to say that one of the core features of most blockchains is consensus, while one of the core features of a public bulletin board is maintaining evidence. Those are emphatically not the same thing, even though many of the same cryptographic techniques (zero knowledge proofs, hash data structures, etc.) are used in both settings.