by Andrea Di Maio | December 30, 2009 | 4 Comments
Not surprisingly Vivek Kundra, US Federal CIO, has been named CIO of the Year by Information Week. I met him for the first time a bit more than a year ago, when he was CTO in DC and launched the first application contest (appsfordemocracy) as part of his early move toward open government. He has [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | December 29, 2009 | 17 Comments
Almost inevitably the last few days of the year feature an impressive number of lists – on newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio and TV programs – about the best and the worst that happened during the year that is about to end. As 2009 is my first full year as a blogger, I could not [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: Aneesh Chopra, Apps.gov, Australia, EU, government 2.0, UK government, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | December 28, 2009 | 4 Comments
Yesterday the Orange County Register published 13 surprises to hit social media in 2010. This is an interesting list and, although I do not necessarily agree with all those “surprises”, some raise intriguing questions for government agencies that are struggling with their own social media strategies. Let me pick a few: At least one of [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0, government 3.0
by Andrea Di Maio | December 26, 2009 | 6 Comments
In what is likely to be one of the last messages it will post on its blog, the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce announced that – as planned – it will end operating, leaving room to whatever new organization will be established to carry forward the excellent recommendations drafted in its final report. I already said [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Australia, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | December 24, 2009 | 7 Comments
It’s Christmas eve and kids (as well as many grown-ups) make their late wishes, hoping that Santa Claus will listen to them and make their dreams come true under their Christmas tree. As I am busy with last-minute shopping and hours-long packing, I thought I’d share a few wishes for government 2.0, who is like [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, open government data
by Andrea Di Maio | December 23, 2009 | 12 Comments
In an earlier post I discussed about whether vendors may derail government 2.0. My line of reasoning was that most of what government 2.0 is about is bottom-up experimentation and transparency, and neither may be exactly welcome to incumbent IT service providers. In fact, much of shortcomings in e.government relate to doing too much in [...]
Category: e-government Tags: government 2.0, vendors
by Andrea Di Maio | December 22, 2009 | 5 Comments
Lately the terms “smart” or “smarter” have become quite fashionable in combination with terms like “city”, “planet” or “government”. Vendors such as IBM, Oracle, Cisco and others use this adjective to allude to how the use of information technology can help government agencies or entire jurisdictions to better achieve their strategic objectives. Like most catchy [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: government 2.0, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | December 21, 2009 | 9 Comments
Although I said some time ago that I did not like the term government 2.0, I have surrendered to its popularity among government clients as well as vendors, to the point that Gartner now has its own definition Government 2.0 is the use of IT to socialize and commoditize government services, processes and data. Reading [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: consumerization, government 2.0, open government, operational technologies
by Andrea Di Maio | December 20, 2009 | 4 Comments
On December 13 2009 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was injured in Milan (Italy) by a mentally disturbed individual who hit him with a statuette. Shortly afterwards Facebook and other social media have been stormed by discussions to support Berlusconi as well as his attacker, including some conspiracy theories claiming that the whole attack [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Europe, US
by Andrea Di Maio | December 18, 2009 | 2 Comments
Today I met the CIO of a large Indian jurisdiction and I thought we would discuss his challenges. To my surprise, he did not seem to have any issue. He said that the IT role in the organization is to establish and run infrastructure, advise various departments (which are largely independent on procurement and application [...]
Category: e-government Tags: transparency
