by Andrea Di Maio | May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments
Over the last few weeks the US administration has attracted a lot of attention through a number of bold IT-related initiatives. One amongst many, its move toward the adoption of cloud computing. As discussed in a previous post, this focuses primarily on the establishment of a “private cloud”, and sets the foundation for a new [...]
Category: cloud Tags: EIF, EU, interoperability
by Andrea Di Maio | May 18, 2009 | Comments Off
With the increasing interest of the US federal administration in cloud computing, the debate of pros and cons of the so-called “private (government) cloud” is intensifying. A recent article describes how the private cloud is mostly attractive because of its higher security. In my humble opinion, though, security is only one aspect. The most important [...]
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Category: cloud Tags: cloud computing, private cloud
by Andrea Di Maio | May 16, 2009 | 5 Comments
In a recent post I mentioned a White House Document issued together with FY 2010 budget request, which covers – amongst other things – cloud computing. An entire section of that document refers to “Government 2.0”. I believe this is one of the first times (if not the first) that this term appears in an [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
Andrew Stott, currently CTO and Deputy CIO in the UK Government, has just been appointed Director of Digital Engagement, reporting to the permanent secretary for government communication. In this new role, he will be in charge for dealing with the recommendations from the Power of Information Task Force. This is a brand new position, at [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: open government data, power of information, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | May 12, 2009 | 6 Comments
A White House document published yesterday with the FY 2010 budget request touches on cloud computing as a way to improve innovation, efficiency and effectiveness in federal IT. The document suggests that A number of pilot projects will be implemented to offer an opportunity to utilize more fully and broadly departmental and agency architectures to [...]
Category: cloud Tags: cloud computing, GSA, Obama, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
In my latest post on the relationships between social networking and cloud computing from a government perspective, I made a statement that has raised a number of comments from some of my colleagues. I said that cloud computing is just one particular manifestation of the commoditization of government. One observed that while delivering government benefits [...]
Category: cloud Tags: commoditization, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | May 10, 2009 | 3 Comments
Over the last several months I have been researching on both web 2.0 and cloud computing in government. Incidentally, both topics are top of mind for the new US administration. I am working on a research note that explores in detail the analogies between these two topics, but I want to share some of my [...]
Category: cloud social networks in government Tags: data.gov, government cloud, open government data, private cloud, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | May 8, 2009 | 5 Comments
After the announcements from Google and Amazon, both of which I have covered in previous posts, it is now Microsoft’s turn to play in the space of open government data, a term that has received significant “stimulus” (not financial tough) from the the new US administration through its announcements and activities around both recovery.gov and [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Google, Microsoft, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | May 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
Earlier today I gave a presentation on web 2.0 and social media to a group of IT officials from one of the Canadian provinces. the audience was quite lively and interactive and they shared with me some insights about their experience with social media. They are amongst the few (see previous post) who do not [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook
by Andrea Di Maio | May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
Several years ago I wrote a piece about the irrelevance of government portals (excerpts in a previous post). Many clients at the time, both vendors and users, hated me or thought I was nuts. However that prediction is coming true. Few days ago an e-government manager from a large jurisdiction in North America told me [...]
Category: e-government Tags: citizen portal
