by Andrea Di Maio | September 20, 2009 | 3 Comments
I have just published a Research Note on gartner.com (subscription required) with this same title, to summarize many of the client conversations I am having about whether and how to provide employees with access to public social networks. This is a topic I have touched upon a few times in this blog, but I felt [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: code of conduct, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | September 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Earlier today I came across a great post by Candi Harrison about “Government Websites Are Not Newpapers”. In her blog post she says that …she is noticing that some agency websites seem to be slipping backwards, featuring agency news rather than top citizen tasks on their home… …It appears that agency public affairs staffs are [...]
Category: e-government Tags: web 2.0 in government, web site
by Andrea Di Maio | September 17, 2009 | 3 Comments
Although I spent most of my professional life dealing with clients and issues outside my home country, I still follow what happens here and sometimes find unlikely sources of inspiration for my research. Italy is well known worldwide for nicely designed products and fashion: the tag “Made in Italy” on several goods has been seen [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | September 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
(UPDATED) Shortly after the official launch of the GSA cloud storefront Apps.gov, vendors that feature multiple times in the business and productivity application sections of the web site have leveraged their position. Salesforce.com issued a press release about its inclusion in Apps.gov, while Google announced Google Public Sector, a directory of existing Google offerings packaged [...]
Category: cloud Tags: Apps.gov, Google, salesforce.com
by Andrea Di Maio | September 16, 2009 | 8 Comments
Yesterday, in a speech given at the NASA Ames Research Center (watch it on YouTube), the US federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced the launch of Apps.gov, the GSA storefront to give federal agencies access to cloud services. This has been in the making for a while and the launch was originally scheduled during the Gov [...]
Category: cloud Tags: Apps.gov, GSA, NASA, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | September 15, 2009 | 6 Comments
I just read Anand Giridharadas’s article on the New Yoirk Times Week in Review about “Athens on the Net” , discussing about the pros and cons of crowdsourcing policy-making. Comments to the article are also quite interesting, as is the Information Week’s blog post by Michael Hickins that got me there in the first place. [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: crowdsourcing, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | September 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
As announced by US Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0 Summit (see NextGov article), the US government is about to release an Open Government Directive, further to President Obama’s executive memo dated January 21st. According to a recent NextGov article, The directive will lay out a structured schedule for the release of data [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Aneesh Chopra, Obama
by Andrea Di Maio | September 11, 2009 | 16 Comments
While the echo of a thrilling and successful Gov 2.0 Summit still resounds in the Beltway and beyond, I want to complete the sequence of sobering and somewhat pessimistic observations I have purposely been posting this week to counterbalance hype and enthusiasm. According to an article published by Government Executive, … Hundreds of thousands of [...]
Category: open government data Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments
During the Government 2,0 Expo in D.C., the winners of the Apps for America contest were selected, with much cheering and enthusiasm on Twitter and other social media following closely this event in D.C. I went through the three winners and looked at the list of submissions, which were 46, one less than the Apps [...]
Category: open government data Tags: mashups, web 2.0 in government
by Andrea Di Maio | September 9, 2009 | 9 Comments
It looks like government 2.0 enthusiasts feel compelled to give their own definitions of what government is. Yesterday I posted my views about why seeing “government as a platform”, as Tim O’Reilly does, may be slightly simplistic (and thanks to all those who posted their very valuable comments ). Today it is Mark Drapeau’s turn. [...]
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