by Andrea Di Maio | January 14, 2011 | 13 Comments
Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with a couple of clients from a US federal agency. The topic was how to make the best possible use of Facebook and Twitter to better serve and interact with specific constituencies (mostly businesses). As they went through their current experience (like many agencies, they have multiple Facebook pages), [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | January 13, 2011 | 11 Comments
The other day I posted about Beth Noveck’s departure as deputy CTO and responsible for Open Government activities in the US federal government and got considerable pushback from readers who both disliked the title of my post and disagreed about my position that open government is not doing great. Let me clarify why I think [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open government, US
by Andrea Di Maio | January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
On January 7 the Office of Management and Budget issues a memo reminding US federal agencies of the importance of technology neutrality in procurement. The one-page memo reminds that […] policies are built around the use of merit-based requirements development and evaluation processes that promote procurement choices based on performance and value, and free of [...]
Category: cloud open source in government Tags: OMB, open source, procurement
by Andrea Di Maio | January 11, 2011 | 20 Comments
I just read that Beth Noveck, Obama administrations’s Deputy CTO in charge for open government, stepped down to return to her teaching position at New York Law School. Beth was instrumental to the White House activities around the Open Government Directive. If the current state of open government in the federal government is a testament [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open government, open government directive
by Andrea Di Maio | January 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
There is nothing better, and indeed more sad, than starting my New Year’s blogging with yet another not too exciting example from my own country, but so be it. Less than one month after our Minister of Justice and his colleague responsible for Public Service and Innovation proudly announced the “Vivifacile Giustizia” project (it sounds [...]
Category: e-government Uncategorized Tags: cost cutting, Italy
