Archives for April, 2009
by Andrea Di Maio | April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
Yesterday I participated in an interesting discussion with Gartner colleagues about how to deploy collaborative and social networking capabilities in public sector organizations. In particular we were discussing the IT strategy document of a parliamentary organization. A colleague of mine said: The only thing that’s missing is not working on or adding collaborative / social [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook, LinkedIn, parliament, social software, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
On April 21st, the HM Treasury released the final Operational Efficiency Program report, which contains a series of recommendations from appointed advisors to improve the efficiency of the UK public sector by addressing five areas, i.e. back-office and IT, collaborative procurement, asset management and sales, property and local incentives and empowerment. The UK government has [...]
Category: shared services in government social networks in government Tags: Gershon, OEP, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | April 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
Earlier today I had a conversation with a client from a UK local authority about the impact of social media and web 2.0 on the workplace. I made my point that it is important to break the boundary between personal and professional profiles if one wants to leverage the power of social networking (as I [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook, web 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
I have to credit for this post my colleague Massimiliano Claps, who just sent me a link to a very interesting article showing that the Chinese government is asking some people to change their name in order for it to be correctly read by government computer systems. In fact those systems are programmed to read less [...]
Category: e-government Tags: China, ID card
by Andrea Di Maio | April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
In his address last Saturday, President Obama named Aneesh Chopra, currently Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, as the new US CTO. This announcement for the new CTO was overdue after the appointment of Vivek Kundraas the Chief Information Officer. This happened in conjunction with the appointment of Jeffrey Zients as the new [...]
Category: e-government Tags: Federal CIO, Federal CTO, Obama
by Andrea Di Maio | April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
Many Facebook users have probably noticed that the mainstream social media engaged users in choosing the new Terms of Service. This is in response to users’ protest against Facebook’s policy about control and archival of deleted data Comments were requested about two documents: the Facebook Principles and the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Facebook also [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, GSA, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
As part of my job as an analyst I do get a fair amount of inquiries from vendors who do supply products and services to government organizations. When I have a chance, I ask them whether they have a vision paper that articulates how IT will transform government service delivery and operations in the long [...]
Category: cloud scenario planning web 2.0 in government Tags: future of government, vendors
by Andrea Di Maio | April 17, 2009 | Comments Off
A report by two researchers at the National Defense University suggesting the need for a comprehensive strategy for the use of social media in government introduces an interesting classification of use. They built a matrix with “Primary sharing direction” (internal vs. external) and “Familiarity with participants” (known vs. unknown), resulting into four different functions of social [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Defense, LinkedIn, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | April 16, 2009 | Comments Off
I have been invited to participate in the upcoming iGov Global Exchange, which will take place in Singapore between June 15 and 19. I will be speaking in one of the parallel tracks on June 15, about Strategic Sourcing for E-Government Services. As the track description makes reference to collaboration between government and industry through [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: citizen-driven, conference, iGov, Singapore
by Andrea Di Maio | April 14, 2009 | 5 Comments
Earlier today I was having an email conversation with a few colleagues about the whole concept of citizen-driven government(Gartner clients can see the relevant research note) and I realized that the term can be interpreted in different ways. One extreme interpretation is that somebody may decide not to pay taxes just because it is not [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: citizen-driven
