by Andrea Di Maio | August 13, 2009 | 5 Comments
A few days ago I read a provocative article published on Federal Computer Week by Michael Daconta, currently CTO at Accelerated Information Management LLC and former Metadata Program Manager for the Department of Homeland Security. The article singles out six technology trends (or fads) that, in the author’s view, have questionable value for government. I [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: enterprise architecture
by Andrea Di Maio | August 12, 2009 | 5 Comments
I had an inquiry with a client who is trying to strike the right balance between what she believes is suboptimal web content management (and related governance structure) and the demand to provide an enterprise solution for some of the social media (primarily wikis, but also blogs) that have been quite successful to support collaboration [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: citizen portal, enterprise 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | August 11, 2009 | 5 Comments
Twitter’s outage last week, allegedly due to a Denial of Service attack that affected also other sites (including Facebook), raised very valid questions about whether government agencies using these web 2.0 tools are exposed to greater risks than those that do not. I am no security expert, but it seems to me that there are [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: security, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | August 7, 2009 | Comments Off
After issuing a request for information for Infrastructure as a Service offerings (see previous post), the U.S: General Services Administration is now venturing into looking for vendor capabilities on Cloud Computing Software as a Service According to the press reports, the GSA should publish a Request for Quotation for IaaS in about two weeks time, [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | August 5, 2009 | 3 Comments
I am at the Gartner Symposium in Capetown, which is always a very interesting experience. Of course cloud computing featured a lot during the event, starting with the analyst keynote where my colleague Daryl Plummer said, among other things, that cloud computing is the next step after consolidation and centralization. While this is both sensible [...]
Category: cloud Tags: GSA, shared services, South Africa
by Andrea Di Maio | August 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
After some initial rumors last week that the U.S. Department of Defense planned to ban the use of social media like Facebook and Twitter from its networks, it appears that the U.S. Marine Corps has taken such step and declared a ban for at least one year. The order says (in capital letters) 2. BACKGROUND. [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Defense, Facebook, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | August 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week I read an interesting exchange between David Davis, former UK shadow home secretary, and Google about whether Google Health and the likes would be a good idea or not to store patient records in the UK, something I mentioned in a previous blog post. When politicians look into private solutions to storing citizen [...]
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Category: e-government Tags: EU, Google, health
