by Andrea Di Maio | March 30, 2010 | 8 Comments
One of the points I have been making to US federal clients when discussing their initiatives to comply with the Open Government Directive is that one thing is to meet the deadline of April 7th (by when all federal agencies are supposed to produce the first version of their open government plans), and another thing [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | March 29, 2010 | 6 Comments
Earlier today I was discussing about an e-government session that I should moderate at an international conference. The organizers were suggesting to arrange a panel about open government and use a confrontational style, with some panelists supporting open government and some challenging its value. Quite soon somebody on the call said “Would we ever find [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
I do spend a fair amount on social media like Twitter and Facebook, and – although most of my professional acquaintances are non-Italian – I have come to know a few Italian “bloggers” who have been early users of social media and advise enterprises about the dos and don’ts of online engagement. Recently I came [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Facebook, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
Earlier this week I attended a videoconference with the CIO and a few professors from a leading European university, to discuss social media strategies for higher education. I am not an expert in higher ed, but they wanted to have a sense of what is happening in the broader public sector when it comes to [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: open government
by Andrea Di Maio | March 25, 2010 | 14 Comments
Yesterday I happened to read an intriguing and contrarian post by Umair Haque on the Harvard Business Review blog. Although certainly controversial, as many of the comments he received pointed out, it is somewhat refreshing, as it challenges the common wisdom that social media are creating value. He suggests that relationships created through social media [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | March 23, 2010 | 12 Comments
On March 22nd the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, delivered a speech that confirmed the ambition of the Digital Britain report and provided a few bold highlights about what government will be doing with technology. A few examples: First to digitalise – to make Britain the leading superfast broadband digital power creating 100 per cent [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | March 19, 2010 | 2 Comments
The US Congress is moving with a proposal for a Public On-Line Information Act, as reported by NextGov. The proposal aims at making executive branch records available online and searchable. It is quite likely that there will be other congressional initiatives to further the agenda of open government and, more importantly, make it resilient to [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open government, open government directive
by Andrea Di Maio | March 19, 2010 | 3 Comments
As most conversations about government 2.0 and open government revolve around how governments can be more transparent, offer new avenues for citizens to participate, push a goldmine of machine readable data for individuals and businesses to extract value from, there is another, subtler angle that is worth considering. This is part of what I often [...]
Category: open government data Tags: crowdsourcing, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | March 18, 2010 | 3 Comments
As a Gartner analyst I started covering open source software in government quite a few years ago. Those were the times when the city of Munich had taken its historical decision to switch to an open source desktop and when some Spanish, French, Scandinavian, South American government organizations and entire jurisdictions declared “war on commercial [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: open government, open source
by Andrea Di Maio | March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments
While I was listening to the webcast of a session held at MIT about the Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband Enabled World, I heard a very interesting question that came form the audience (at 40 mins 50 secs in the video). The gentleman, who represented a network of people working across sectors, made [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: government 2.0
