by Andrea Di Maio | March 10, 2009 | 4 Comments
Yesterday I read one of those news that make you smile at first, and then leave you with a sense of disarray, especially if you’ve grown in a country like mine. The news is that the several Catholic priests in Italy are asking their parishioners to give up the use of SMS messages, computer games, social [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | March 6, 2009 | 4 Comments
I just bloggedabout Vivek Kundra’s appointment as the federal CIO, and here he comes with a number of very interesting highlights at his first press briefing yesterday (see news). Three of the points he made struck me for their relevance and for how early he has made them. The first one is on greater availability [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | March 5, 2009 | 4 Comments
As anticipated in a previous post, the appointment of Vivek Kundra, former CTO of the District of Columbia, to US Federal Chief Information Officer has been confirmed by the White House. According to the announcement his responsibilities will be to ensure system interoperability, and information sharing, security and privacy. Just looking at these four terms, [...]
Category: e-government Tags: Federal CIO, Obama
by Andrea Di Maio | March 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week the US General Services Administration announced (see article) that it will be moving the official US government web site www.usa.gov to an infrastructure operated by Terremark, which will host the web site in its data center in Culpepper, Va. This will provide GSA with great flexibility in managing its web sites without having [...]
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Category: cloud Tags: e-government, web site
