With a $5.75 million investment, the Beeck Center is expanding initiatives to encourage collaboration between digital service agencies.

The pandemic forced a torrent of new digital government endeavors. Now states and cities need to determine if the successful ones can be made permanent.

"State and local governments have been asking for this skill and expertise for a very long time," said Cori Zarek of Georgetown University's Beeck Center.

A consortium of technologists and business leaders have formed a coalition called the U.S. Digital Response for COVID-19 to help state and local governments solve challenges on…