Andrea DiMaio

Every other year the ministers responsible for e-government in the EU member states, candidate accession countries and those in European free trade area meet to discuss respective progress on e-government as well as common future objectives. This year they are meeting at a conference in Malmo (Sweden) on November 19-20.
Why a declaration?
The most important political [...]

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Most conversations about Government 2.0 assume that:

Government provides data to citizens to provide openness and transparency
Citizens engage with government to improve policy-making and service delivery

This approach implies that data flows from government to citizens and engagement flows from citizen to government. This is what I call the asymmetry of Government 2.0, since flows appear to [...]

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I have been preaching for a while that investments in government portals need to be critically reassessed, as citizens look for different and more convenient ways to access. My position on this, dating back to 2001, well before anybody would even spell “Web 2.0” was based on the simple observation that governments cannot easily provide [...]

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Over the last several months I have been writing extensively, both on this blog and in our client-focused research notes, on the characteristics of what many call government 2.0. Citizen-drive, employee-centricity, open data availability, emergent architectures are all key features. But I have always tried to figure out which of these characteristics is the most [...]

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While Tina Nunno and I were preparing the interview to Vivek Kundra for Gartner Symposium in Orlando, we discussed about a question we did not have time to ask him; what is the cost of transparency?
Nobody would argue that making public data easier to find and consume is not a good thing. However making data [...]

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I just saw the announcement of a new application that is available for either iPhone 3GS or for Android and allows people to visualize stimulus package contributions through an augmented reality application. As far as I can tell, it is pretty much like Google Maps and StreetView to visualize where government money is being used.
Great [...]

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Over the last several months I have stressed both the promise and the danger of the many activities around the use of web 2.0 technologies in and by governments, currently nicknames as “government 2.0” (incidentally, I am working on a research note with a formal Garner definition of this term).
Most of my criticisms to some [...]

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Reading a blog post on Programmableweb I’ve been reminded (as if there was a need) that there are six different mashup contests currently going on, including two in Australia, one in San Francisco and one in New York.
As I said a while ago, this is a sign that government 2.0 is reaching what we at [...]

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Over the last few days there has been quite some debate about an article Against Transparency by Lawrence Lessig. In this article Lessig, who ironically sits on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation, looks at the dark side of transparency, something I have touched upon in a couple of previous posts (see here and [...]

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In a previous post I raised, amongst others, the issue of authenticity and quality of open government data. Yesterday, this came up in an interview appeared on the O’Reilly Radar, to Raymond Mosley, Director of the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and Michael L. Wash, CIO of the Government Printing Office (GPO).
The actual news [...]

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