by Andrea Di Maio | October 31, 2012 | 6 Comments
Like many natural and man-made disasters before it, Hurricane Sandy has shown once again the power of social media to keep people informed, to coordinate rescue efforts and ultimately save lives. There are countless stories already about how Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have helped people in need, reassured their relatives that they [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | October 24, 2012 | 2 Comments
Earlier this morning I had a session on “Should Social Media Be Enterprise or Personal Tools” at Gartner Symposium in Orlando, where I made the point that social media endeavors can provide sustainable values only by blending personal, enterprise and community purposes . One interesting comment from the audience was that quite often communities created [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | October 23, 2012 | 2 Comments
Yesterday my colleague and friend John Kost and I challenged each other on stage at a public-sector-only session at Gartner Symposium about cloud and consolidation in government, and whether they are conflicting or complementary. He talked about his experience in Michigan in the nineties, as well as other infrastructure, application and process consolidation initiatives around [...]
Category: cloud shared services in government Tags: GartnerSymposium
by Andrea Di Maio | October 22, 2012 | 5 Comments
Among the flurry of activities and deja-vu around open data that governments worldwide, in all tiers are pursuing to increase transparency and fuel a data economy, I found something really worth reading in a report that was recently published by the Danish government. “Good Basic Data for Everyone – A Driver for Growth and Efficiency” [...]
Category: open government data Tags: government 2.0, privacy
by Andrea Di Maio | October 12, 2012 | Comments Off
A few days ago I gave a presentation about the future of government CIOs to the IT and business staff of a local government in the Netherlands. This is a rather affluent city, and one of the happy few that – thanks to its location and tax revenues – does not seem to have any [...]
Comments Off
Category: smart government Tags: BYOD, Europe
by Andrea Di Maio | October 5, 2012 | 10 Comments
On October 4th, after great anticipation and endless debates, the Italian Digital Agenda has been approved (see presentation in Italian here). It is part of a Decree about Growth tackling a number of areas that are key to economic development at a critical juncture in the country’s history, with record-high public debt, a deep recession [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT open government data Tags: Italy
by Andrea Di Maio | October 4, 2012 | 6 Comments
Today I read one of those news I have been waiting for for a long time. According to The Independent: The [UK] Government will announce details this month of a controversial national identity scheme which will allow people to use their mobile phones and social media profiles as official identification documents for accessing public services. [...]
Category: Europe and IT web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, ID card
by Andrea Di Maio | October 4, 2012 | 2 Comments
(WARNING: this is an unusually long post for my blog. However I want to set the foundations for a dialogue and new line of research, and I hope my reader will find it worthwhile) Over the last many years, information technology has been celebrated as a driver of business and social innovation, with an impact [...]
Category: public value of IT smart government Tags: government 2.0, smart city
