by Andrea Di Maio | June 24, 2011 | 4 Comments
When I discuss about potential cloud deployments with government clients and many vendors, the center of gravity tends to be “private clouds” or “community/government clouds”. Depending on who’s who – an agency with a large IT department, an IT shared service provider, a smaller agency or local authority, or a vendor to either – the [...]
Category: cloud Tags: private cloud
by Andrea Di Maio | June 22, 2011 | 5 Comments
Over the last 20 years and more we have heard all sorts of political statements highlighting how essential IT is to productivity and economic growth. Countless surveys have shown a clear correlation about factors like IT spending per capita and digital literacy, and growth and competitiveness of economies. Usually this leads to calls for greater [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: Italy, open government, taxes
by Andrea Di Maio | June 21, 2011 | 7 Comments
Over the last several months, we have seen countless examples of disruption and unrest that root back to the worsening financial and economic situation in many jurisdictions around the world. Unrest in North Africa, riots in Greece, protests in Spain and in Italy, often fueled by the use of social media, are challenging established government [...]
Category: smart government Tags: economic development, financial crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | June 17, 2011 | Comments Off
I had a client call fixed for today with a federal agency to discuss about the use of public cloud. The issues they were planning to discuss with me were all very interesting, looking into the pros and cons of private vs. public cloud, how to select vendors, how to assess risks, how to migrate. [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | June 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
Over the last few days there have been two prominent IT professionals have announced that they will be leaving the Federal government. Last week, Sonny Baghowalia, who has been leading the cloud agenda at GSA announced that he accepted a position of CIO in the State of Hawai starting in July. Today’s news is that [...]
Category: cloud IT management open government data Tags: GSA, OMB, US federal CIO, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
When I was in Canada last week I had a lovely lunch with clients from a provincial agency in the western part of the country. We were discussing about how to make effective use of social media for citizen engagement purposes and I made an example I use quite often (and gave in a previous [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Canada, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | June 14, 2011 | 3 Comments
Every week there are more examples of how disruptive social media like Facebook can be to politics. After the riots in North Africa and the demonstrations in Spain over the last few weeks, yesterday Italy added to the mix with an unexpectedly high turnout of voters for a popular poll about a number of topics [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Italy, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | June 13, 2011 | 3 Comments
Earlier today I had one inquiry with a national government looking at the option of building a private cloud. A few hours later, out Client Support Organization – which manages client inquiries and put them into our agenda – flagged that a second national government wanted to discuss about how to build their private cloud. [...]
Category: cloud Tags: private cloud
by Andrea Di Maio | June 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
Gartner defines smart government as an administration that integrates information, communication and operational technologies to planning, management and operations across multiple domains to generate sustainable public value (see Gartner note The Five Dimensions of Smart Government – login required) Although a government can be smart at any level (federal, state, local), in individual domains (environment, [...]
Category: smart government Tags: Italy, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | June 1, 2011 | 3 Comments
This week I visited a shared service organization that manages, among other things, the jurisdiction-wide e-government portal, including a number of widely utilized components supporting content management, electronic forms and payment. Some of the statistics they shared with me, although I have not yet verified them, looked quite promising, and so was their reputation among [...]
Category: e-government Tags: IT management, shared services
