# About USDR U.S. Digital Response (USDR) helps governments meet the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis by strengthening decision-making and supporting their ability to effectively deliver critical services to the public at scale. We are a volunteer-run, non-partisan effort to help federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments with technology, data, design, operations, communications, project management, and more during the COVID-19 crisis. We provide free assistance to all government entities across the country; if we can help, we will. USDR was founded by former U.S. Deputy CTOs and seasoned tech industry veterans who led federal open data policies, and started up the U.S. Digital Service. [Learn more about our **Mission and Values**.](https://www.usdigitalresponse.org/mission-values) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://contacttracingplaybook.org/about.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.