by Andrea Di Maio | August 10, 2012 | 7 Comments
Yesterday and earlier today I had two quite interesting and revealing conversation on the overhyped theme of smart cities. The first one was about how to determine a set of criteria, toolkits, frameworks and so forth to advise cities about how to build a roadmap and self-assess with respect to “smartness” objectives. The second was [...]
Category: smart government Tags: smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | August 9, 2012 | 5 Comments
Yesterday I had an interesting and revealing experience about the dynamics of social media. One of my contacts in Facebook, a consultant in the Italian banking sector and a mercurial blogger, posted about a device that he connects to the TV set and emits a quite bright blue light even in standby mode, which is [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | August 7, 2012 | Comments Off
Many of us are following with great interest and admiration the London Olympic games, and almost a year ago I had the privilege of interviewing on stage the CIO of the London Olympics. In a few days, also the whole games will be over, and – besides the reverberations of some of the most extraordinary [...]
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Category: Europe and IT smart government Tags: london 2012, olympics
by Andrea Di Maio | August 1, 2012 | Comments Off
I recently read an interesting article on Nextgov about how the new US Government CTO, Todd Park, is trying to inject innovation in a notoriously slow federal environment by bringing on board people from the private sector who can offer a different perspective and trigger what Park calls a “lean startup mode in government”. As [...]
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Category: open government data Tags: innovation, US CTO
