by Andrea Di Maio | June 17, 2010 | 5 Comments
Last Monday, while in Singapore, I gave an interview about a variety of topics, and one question was about what I thought about progress in government transformation. We do publish a Hype Cycle on Government Transformation: here is our hype cycle for 2009, available to Gartner clients, while my colleague Steve Bittinger is coordinating the [...]
Category: e-government Tags: enterprise architecture, future of government
by Andrea Di Maio | June 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday I met representatives from the web and communications groups at a government agency in Singapore. They had been working for some time on the establishment and were about to launch their agency’s Facebook page and blog. When I asked them my usual question (“why would you do anything like that?”), they sighed and told [...]
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Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
I just spent a week in India doing local briefings and meeting clients in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. This is my third time in India between 2006 and today, and once again India has revealed itself as a country of incredible contrasts. New developments driven by the impending Commonwealth games are side by side with [...]
Category: e-government Tags: India
by Andrea Di Maio | June 14, 2010 | 3 Comments
A few days ago I read an intriguing article on the Times of India. A US firm called Software Secure has developed a program which makes sure that students do not cheat as they take exams online. The software locks access to the Internet as well as all files on the PC, asks for fingerprint [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | June 11, 2010 | 6 Comments
Over the last two or three years I have discovered to be one of the top travelers in Gartner, spending in excess of 100 working days a year (plus travel days and a fair amount of week ends) in different countries where I meet clients in different situations: large conferences, local briefings, small workshops, round [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | June 10, 2010 | 6 Comments
It is quite interesting to notice in how many conversations clients ask questions like “which web 2.0 tools should we use to be successful”? As usual, they are looking for best practices and for technologies that are a relatively safe bet: for example, wikis have a good track record in many government organizations, while blogs [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | June 9, 2010 | 4 Comments
Yesterday I visited a large central government service provider, which offers infrastructure and basic software to almost all departments in its jurisdiction. This is entrenched in that jurisdiction’s strategy, although I am not clear whether that’s a mandate or not. I was asked to present a condensed version of my standard pitch on cloud computing [...]
Category: cloud Tags: shared services
by Andrea Di Maio | June 5, 2010 | 3 Comments
I bought my iPad (wifi only, 64 Gb) when I was in Chicago about a month ago. I also bought the Apple case, but in Albany NY as the Chicago store had run out of them (while the Albany one had run out of iPads…). I am not an Apple-maniac and I have never used [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: iPad
by Andrea Di Maio | June 3, 2010 | 4 Comments
On Wednesday had a great meeting with a federal government organization in Australia that exemplifies very well the struggle that many capable people face when dealing with government 2.0 and social media strategies. The people I met, including the CIO, clearly got the basics of citizen engagement, which is to be where people are. For [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Australia, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | June 2, 2010 | 4 Comments
Earlier today I had the pleasure of meeting senator Kate Lundy in Canberra, Australia. She is a very well known figure in the government 2.0 scene and a recent keynote speaker at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington D.C. It was a quite enjoyable experience. It all started with a meeting I had this morning [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Australia, government 2.0
