by Andrea Di Maio | June 23, 2009 | 9 Comments
By one of those interesting coincidences in life, just one day after I posted my rather controversial view about how bad an idea it is to create a government version of Facebook, I read that the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center has just launched its own homegrown social network, named Spacebook. I cannot access that [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, NASA
by Andrea Di Maio | June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
When I was in Malaysia last week I met people from two different federal agencies, and I discussed with them a few excerpts from my latest presentation From Citizen-Centric to Citizen-Driven and Employee-Centric Government. The set-up of both meetings was quite similar: between 10 and 20 people in a room, about 45 minutes available. The [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Malaysia
by Andrea Di Maio | June 19, 2009 | 3 Comments
I’ve been in Singapore many times, although just for a few days each time, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it is one of my favorite destinations. It all starts with experiencing one of the best flight services in the world (certainly the best I’ve tried). Does not matter if one travels business class [...]
Category: e-government Tags: employee-centric, Singapore
by Andrea Di Maio | June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
When I was in Singapore last Tuesday, I met a large vendor and we had a brief conversation about cloud computing. We started disagreeing, as he used the cloud computing definition from NIST, which has unfortunately become the reference in the US federal government. I’ve had a chance to comment about it in the past [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | June 17, 2009 | 4 Comments
Yes, you’ve read it right. I met a client today in South East Asia who asked me this question after having attended a presentation by a small consulting firm that claims to have great experience on government 2.0. What one of the consultants told them was that they should – indeed – create a government [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, social software
by Andrea Di Maio | June 15, 2009 | Comments Off
Today I attended the iGov Global Exchange in Singapore, where officials from some of the countries that are most advanced on e-government (such as Singapore, Canada, Hong Kong and Dubai) gathered to discuss about progress, lessons learned and future challenges. What I found most interesting was that there were like two different events going on. [...]
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Category: e-government Tags: future of government, joined-up
by Andrea Di Maio | June 14, 2009 | 6 Comments
A U.S. Army order issued on May 18th permits access to five social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, Delicious, Twitter and Vimeo) within the continental U.S. Further, links to those pages will be placed on the Army web site Army.mil. The order says that … the intent of senior Army leaders to leverage social media as [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, Twitter, U.S. Army, Youtube
by Andrea Di Maio | June 12, 2009 | Comments Off
Two days ago I had a fascinating conversation with a group of government officials who are looking into the so-called post-i2010 work, i.e. the definition of the policy priorities for the European information society for the next 5 years. i2010 was the set of policies that implemented the so-called Lisbon Strategy, revolving around the role [...]
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Category: e-government Europe and IT Tags: EU, European Commission
by Andrea Di Maio | June 11, 2009 | 15 Comments
I rarely publicize a piece of research that I’ve written for our clients, as I know that some if not most of this blog’s readers have no access to that. However I’d like to make an exception for a research note that was published yesterday on our web site: Citizen-Driven Government Must Be Employee-Centric, Too [...]
Category: e-government Tags: citizen-driven, employee-centric
by Andrea Di Maio | June 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Isn’t this a fascinating question? It goes without saying that I have little clue about the answer, but I’m sure this is something European policy-makers need to look into pretty soon, especially as they work toward a new set of policies for the post-2010 Information Society. There are two facts that stem out of this [...]
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Category: Europe and IT Tags: EU, Europe, European Commission
