by Andrea Di Maio | October 13, 2009 | 8 Comments
Over the last few days there has been quite some debate about an article Against Transparency by Lawrence Lessig. In this article Lessig, who ironically sits on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation, looks at the dark side of transparency, something I have touched upon in a couple of previous posts (see here and [...]
Category: open government data Tags: government 2.0, transparency
by Andrea Di Maio | October 12, 2009 | 6 Comments
On October 20 at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando I will be moderating Cloud Computing in Government: A Vendor Perspective, a panel with five vendors discussing the relevance and roadmap to cloud computing for government organizations. Vendors in the panel (in strict alphabetical order) are: CSC Google Microsoft Salesforce.com Terremark Their choice is neither reflective [...]
Category: cloud Tags: Google, Microsoft, salesforce.com
by Andrea Di Maio | October 11, 2009 | 3 Comments
Over the last several years, when pitching on e-government or – more recently – government 2.0, I have been highlighting that citizen satisfaction depend on demonstrable improvement of service levels, as well as their expectations about service levels. I have been living in Brussels, Belgium for a few years in the nineties and I can [...]
Category: e-government Tags:
by Andrea Di Maio | October 10, 2009 | 3 Comments
The award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Barack Obama has both caught many by surprise and stressed how compelling his vision for change is on foreign policy. Some commentators have criticized this choice, indicating that it is more an award to hope than to achievement. Some of the processes he has set [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Obama, transparency
by Andrea Di Maio | October 8, 2009 | 3 Comments
A survey of 1,400 CIOs in the US published by Robert Half Technology (see press release) shows some interesting – and indeed worrying – results about the number of enterprises that prevent their employees from accessing social media sites from the workplace. Here are the results: CIOs were asked, “Which of the following most closely [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags:
by Andrea Di Maio | October 7, 2009 | 4 Comments
In a previous post I raised, amongst others, the issue of authenticity and quality of open government data. Yesterday, this came up in an interview appeared on the O’Reilly Radar, to Raymond Mosley, Director of the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and Michael L. Wash, CIO of the Government Printing Office (GPO). The actual [...]
Category: open government data Tags: government 2.0, social networks
by Andrea Di Maio | October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is one of the government organizations in the US that can be or aims to become a private cloud service provider. Their Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE) was launched a few months ago to allow on-demand access to infrastructure to develop and test new custom applications. Now RACE is [...]
Category: cloud Tags: private cloud
by Andrea Di Maio | October 6, 2009 | 8 Comments
Over the last few months, in client conversations or blog discussions, it has become apparent to me that some of us look at the impact of web 2.0 on government – also nicknamed “Government 2.0” – from the wrong perspective. Many think about how government as an organization (or actually a set of organizations and [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags:
by Andrea Di Maio | October 5, 2009 | 11 Comments
Although I rarely touch on politics on this blog (I am neither qualified nor interested), I found a news that shed some light on the struggles and contradictions of what many define “Government 2.0”. Tom Steinberg of MySociety, who has been one of the minds behind the seminal Power of Information Report – which started [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: politics, power of information
by Andrea Di Maio | October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
This morning I read quite a refreshing post looking at numbers about traffic and relevance of government web sites compared to others (search engines, social sites, retailers, sport, music) and finding out that they are not as popular as all the enthusiasts of e-government and now government 2.0 seem to believe. I did a similar [...]
Category: e-government web 2.0 in government Tags: benchmarks, government 2.0
