by Andrea Di Maio | July 17, 2009 | 5 Comments
In order to prepare an inquiry with a city government that was interested in defining policies to regulate the use of social media, I did a little survey of what some major cities in North America are doing on this. Interestingly what I found was not different from what I found a bit less than [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: 311, Facebook, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | July 16, 2009 | 9 Comments
Last October, I posted about the theme I have been researching over the last two years, i.e. “The Future of Government is No Government” (see also Gartner research note, subscription required) Now some of the highlights of that research, which I have discussed in multiple posts, are available in an article just published on Governing: [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: future of government, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | July 16, 2009 | 7 Comments
Yesterday I had a great conversation with a European client who is tasked with identifying a roadmap for government departments across his jurisdiction to collectively benefit from cloud services. The starting point for him – like for a number of other clients I have been talking to lately – is (1) a set of ongoing [...]
Category: cloud Tags: GSA, private cloud, Vivek, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | July 15, 2009 | 5 Comments
Earlier today I had a very interesting conversation with an executive from a local government about their digital society initiatives. These include the development of broadband infrastructure to provide Internet access to residents, and the development of a number of web applications to visualize information about traffic or real estate use as well as to [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: local government, mashup, portal, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | July 14, 2009 | 5 Comments
Google Health and Microsoft Health Vault received their first blessing in Europe by the Conservative party in the UK. The Centre for Policy Studies published a report with an intriguing title “It’s Ours – Why we, not government, must own our data”, which says: A clear choice is emerging for the future of government IT: [...]
Category: e-government Tags: citizen data vault, Google, health, Microsoft
by Andrea Di Maio | July 13, 2009 | 3 Comments
Last week GSA awarded an 18 million dollar contract to redesign Recovery.gov to Smartronix, a firm headquartered in Maryland, through the Alliant contract vehicle, which was conceived a few years ago (although this is the first contract awarded under the scheme). This looks like a hefty price, although just a slice of the 84 million [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: ARRA, GSA, recovery.gov
by Andrea Di Maio | July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
In a discussion with several people from an agency in a US jurisdiction, I was asked whether cloud computing can help IT consolidation. Digging a bit, I found out that this jurisdiction is consolidating data centers across different departments and – as far as I can tell – the process is still on-going. The jurisdiction [...]
Category: cloud Tags: consolidation, shared services
by Andrea Di Maio | July 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Two days ago I posted about the continued unhealthy practices applied at the US border in airports (all people entering the country have to put their hands on fingerprint readers, but there is no provision to clean hands before doing so). A few minutes ago I received an email by the US President’s advisor on [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: H1N1, homeland security, swine flu
by Andrea Di Maio | July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments
Today I was presenting about Web 2.0 to an audience from a federal agency. As usual, I took a look at their web site as well as their presence on some of the mainstream social media, and found that they seemed to have a group on Facebook, with about 900 members. The agency logo is [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | July 8, 2009 | 5 Comments
Two and a half months ago, when I entered the US on the very week when the H1N1 virus was being announced (the disease was called swine flu at the time, to then switch to a more politically correct term), I posted about the lack of hygiene at the US border. All people entering the [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: H1N1, swine flu
