by Andrea Di Maio | January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment
I recently pointed out that there has been a number of high-profile government IT executives holding whole-of-government positions who have moved out of government. One of them was Vivek Kundra, the former US Federal CIO, who accepted a position at Harvard, while others moved to vendors who are quite active in the cloud enablement or [...]
Category: cloud Tags: salesforce.com, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment
A couple of years ago, when interest in cloud computing was starting in the public sector, I wrote a note about Shared Services in Government: Obscured by the Cloud? (client access required, any reference to the Pink Floyd’s album is unintentional, although it may reveal some of the author’s musical tastes). The note stated that [...]
Category: cloud shared services in government Tags:
by Andrea Di Maio | December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment
I recently praised the New Zealand government for one of the best social media guidance documents I have seen so far. Previously I had singled-out their approach to procuring infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Now, I am happy to highlight their overall approach to government cloud, which is by making sure they get a sensible business case. On [...]
Category: cloud Tags: New Zealand
by Andrea Di Maio | November 23, 2011 | 6 Comments
After one and a half year I had a chance to meet again senator Kate Lundy, who is now the Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Cultural Affairs. She has been a very vocal supporter of government 2.0 and always passionate with innovative ways to use technology to engage citizens. While her new responsibility and [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: Australia, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | November 22, 2011 | 4 Comments
Over the last year there have been a few changes in high-profile jobs at the whole-of-government level both in the US and in the UK. In the US, Beth Noveck, deputy CTO dealing with open government left in January, while the federal CIO Vivek Kundra left in August, a few months after having set strategic [...]
Category: IT management cloud web 2.0 in government Tags:
by Andrea Di Maio | November 17, 2011 | 3 Comments
I am getting close to the end of the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast and a few conversations with clients have been about shared services and consolidation. Australia has quite a tradition with shared services, as many states have implemented and run shared services for quite a few years. Today many governments around the world [...]
Category: cloud shared services in government Tags: consolidation, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 15, 2011 | Comments Off
After a few one-on-ones with attendees at the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast, Australia, I am pleased to report that people over here seem to have a slightly more cynical view about cloud than some of their colleagues in Europe or the US. There does not seem to be anybody who is obsessed with idea [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | November 14, 2011 | Comments Off
I recently returned from the Gartner Symposia in Orlando and in Barcelona, and I am now at the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast. In both Orlando and Barcelona I had the opportunity to discuss cloud computing and the use of social media in government, as well as how to use and manage technology to make [...]
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Category: cloud smart government web 2.0 in government Tags: symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
While at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, I had a stream of meetings with government clients from several European countries who are contemplating the development of private clouds. In some cases, these clouds are seen as the end result of a consolidation process resulting from a decision to centralize IT infrastructure across multiple entities, while [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | November 9, 2011 | Comments Off
Yesterday my colleague Dave Aron and I had the pleasure to interview Gerry Pennell, the CIO for the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, at the Gartner European Symposium in Barcelona . He spoke about his challenges, how they are closer than one might think to those that CIOs face in any complex organization, [...]
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Category: cloud smart government Tags: smart city, symposium
