Andrea DiMaio

Many talk about the wisdom of crowds. Check this story: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/25/christmas.giving.blog/index.html?eref=edition_technology
and think about how the compassion of crowds can re-invent human services.
Ley me wish you a wonderful 2009

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I am preparing a presentation for the Gartner Spring Symposium in Las Vegas about Real Examples of Innovation in Government and I would like to gather input from readers of this blog.
To do so, I have arranged a very simple online survey for those who are willing to submit a case: those selected will both [...]

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One theme that seems to be very fashionable around the evolution of e-government is e-participation. Its definition in Wikipedia is “ICT-supported participation in processes involved in government and governance”. Processes may concern administration, service delivery, decision making and policy making.”
While this definition mentions both service delivery and decision/policy making, many people use the term in [...]

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Last Wednesday I did have an intriguing conversation with officials in a large non-government organization that operates across the world. This organization is in the process of defining its own green IT policy, and – amongst other things – is looking at how to make its IT procurement greener. In the draft version of the [...]

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Last Tuesday I did visit two US state capitals and discussed about their e-government developments. While looking at their portal home pages, I noticed that – in the list of most important services  – they had the list of sex offenders. This is something many of us in Europe are not used to, although one [...]

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I just spent two days in London at an IT vendor analyst conference. When I landed at Heathrow last Tuesday, there was a taxi arranged to pick me up and take me into downtown London where the conference was taking place. I usually take the express train to Paddington, but I was happy they had [...]

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About two months ago Transport For London  (TfL) – the government owned company running the public transportation system in London – launched a social networking site called Together For London. The purpose was to gather ideas from customers about how to make London a better place. Registered users can create an avatar (called “Little Londoner”), [...]

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Over the last couple of days there has been a rather hatred discussion in Italy after the government decided to increase the value-added tax on pay-TV services from 10 to 20 percent.
The largest pay-TV operator (Sky) launched an instant TV and press campaign, highlighting how this would impact their clients and the potential conflict of [...]

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