by Andrea Di Maio | May 28, 2013 | 1 Comment
I spent my first week ever in Beijing, where my local colleague gave me ample opportunities to meet clients and prospects – both government organizations and IT vendors – as well as to discover some of the beauties of this formidable country, like the well-known Forbidden City or the less-known but equally impressive contemporary architectural [...]
Category: e-government smart government Tags: China, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | December 20, 2012 | 5 Comments
For the fourth year in a row, here is my (absolutely personal) top ten in the area of government innovation. Over the last three years the title was “Top Ten for Government 2.0”, but this term is less relevant today. What is relevant is to focus on how governments around the world are looking for [...]
Category: e-government open government data scenario planning shared services in government Tags: Australia, Canada, Denmark, UK
by Andrea Di Maio | December 17, 2012 | 2 Comments
After the announced retirement of long-standing Australian Government CIO Ann Steward, the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Deregulation has announced the creation of two distinct roles. The work of AGIMO has been diverging over time between two distinct areas: whole of government policy and governance, and whole of government services delivery (eg, networks, [...]
Category: cloud e-government web 2.0 in government Tags: Australia
by Andrea Di Maio | December 14, 2012 | 4 Comments
Yesterday Gartner held a local briefing in Milan on the topic of Smart Cities. This was attended by local government, vendors and research organizations. Bettina Tratz-Ryan, who is our lead for Sustainability research, and myself were joined by Renato Galliano, Director for Economic Innovation and University of the City of Milan, and Michele Vianello, General [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT smart government Tags: smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | November 9, 2012 | 14 Comments
The UK cabinet office just published its Government Digital Strategy, which culminates its focus on all services to be “digital by default”. The strategy states 11 principles and 14 actions to shape how UK central government departments and agencies will embrace digitalization of their services and improve uptake by citizens and businesses. What is good [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT Tags: digital government, UK government
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 | September 1, 2012 | 4 Comments
I am just back from my holidays, which I spent with my family in Australia. I had a great time, also because I decided to resist the temptation of doing any work-related activity unless it was extremely urgent for a client-facing deadline (but a bit of luck and good planning made these very few and [...]
Category: e-government open government data web 2.0 in government Tags: US CTO
by Andrea Di Maio | July 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
People have been following with a moderate sense of worry the financial crisis unfolding in Greece and other European countries, Despite how dramatic the situation has become in Greece, many have remained in denial about the possibility of a serious contagion to other vulnerable countries. However things have suddenly changed, as Valencia, Murcia, Catalonia and [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT open government data smart government Tags: euro crisis, government 2.0, open government, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | July 17, 2012 | 3 Comments
Although most of my Interactions take place with Gartner clients based in the more developed part of the world where there is significant technology intensity in government, I do happen to interact with government IT executives in developing countries in various regions. What I have noticed over time is that their attitudes are more polarized [...]
Category: e-government open government data Tags: developing countries
by Andrea Di Maio | July 6, 2012 | 2 Comments
This morning I was driving near one of the major processing sites of the garbage collection company in Milan, and a truck came out of the site, without giving any priority to the cars on the main street, including mine. I was driving rather slowly, so I managed to pull the brakes in time to [...]
Category: e-government Tags: Italy, open government
