Andrea DiMaio

A few days ago I came across a request for proposals issued by the US Air Force Materiel Command to purchase 2,200 Sony Playstation 3 (PS3).
For how surprising this may look like, the  justification is indeed very clear. The Air Force is interested in expanding an earlier pilot where it has been using 300 PS3 [...]

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Every other year the ministers responsible for e-government in the EU member states, candidate accession countries and those in European free trade area meet to discuss respective progress on e-government as well as common future objectives. This year they are meeting at a conference in Malmo (Sweden) on November 19-20.
Why a declaration?
The most important political [...]

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Last month I expressed my reservations about the usefulness of mashup contests, i.e. those initiatives where people are invited to submit applications that use public data available on government web sites to create new view of that data. After the various AppsForDemocracy, AppsForAmerica, INCA and others, it is now the Australian mashup contest to capture [...]

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The US Navy has published a “one-stop-shop of its social media pages across various social media sites”. This is both a simple and a great idea. This directory serves multiple purposes:

It works as an inventory tool. Once different parts of a complex organization start establishing their presence on social media, it is easy to lose [...]

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I have just publish a note that provides Gartner definition of Government 2.0 as the use of IT to socialize and commoditize government services, processes and data.
While there is a research note (access for clients only) explaining the definition in some detail, I want to provide the main highlights here.
The socialization of information has multiple [...]

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Most conversations about Government 2.0 assume that:

Government provides data to citizens to provide openness and transparency
Citizens engage with government to improve policy-making and service delivery

This approach implies that data flows from government to citizens and engagement flows from citizen to government. This is what I call the asymmetry of Government 2.0, since flows appear to [...]

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Over the last few days, while the Italian government is working on its budget, part of the political debate has focused on the apparent lack of 800 million euro for investments in broadband which had been announced earlier.
While I have no strong feeling either way, I thought I would share a Facebook message I got [...]

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I have been preaching for a while that investments in government portals need to be critically reassessed, as citizens look for different and more convenient ways to access. My position on this, dating back to 2001, well before anybody would even spell “Web 2.0” was based on the simple observation that governments cannot easily provide [...]

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As the agenda manager for the government research team in Gartner, I am in the process of gathering input from clients and non clients about the areas we should be researching about in the course of 2010.
You are welcome to respond to our survey, which asks three very simple questions:

What are your top three technology [...]

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Over the last year or so I have had several conversations with some Gartner clients as well colleagues about how government organizations should address social media, which have shown apparently divergent viewpoints.
One school of thought suggests that the use of social media should be carefully planned and controlled by government, and that having a sufficiently [...]

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