by Andrea Di Maio | March 1, 2013 | Comments Off
Many commentators have been discussing about the outcome of the last Italian elections, held a few das ago, which resulted in a tie between the two major coalitions (center-left Democratic Party with its allies and center-right People of Freedom) and a surprising success of the new grassroots Five-Star Movement, led by former comedian Beppe Grillo. [...]
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Category: Europe and IT web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, Italy
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 | December 11, 2012 | Comments Off
I just read on the Guardian that the hyperactive British minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, “wants fellow ministers to be given the final say in picking a candidate from a list approved by the board”. This would be quite a change in the UK, where civil service executives are selected according to the [...]
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Category: Europe and IT Tags: UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | November 28, 2012 | Comments Off
The European Cloud Strategy published last September is a relatively realistic document, aiming at addressing issues of self-certification, procurement, and contracting. While there was an initial fear that a EU strategy would have led to building local solutions and infrastructure, the outcome is reasonable and most likely quite useful across different industry sectors. One of [...]
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Category: cloud Europe and IT Tags: EU
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 | 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 | September 26, 2012 | Comments Off
Last week I attended an event organized by Gartner Executive Program for our CIO clients in a very nice location, in the middle of a famous wine districts in the country. There, I led a session about the euro crisis, sharing the scenario planning exercise that David Furlonger and I did at the end of [...]
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Category: Europe and IT Tags: euro crisis
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 | July 30, 2012 | 5 Comments
Over the last few weeks, in my financially beleaguered country, Internet and Web 2.0 experts have been debating about a controversial research on the real nature of Twitter followers. As I wrote at the time, this research is hardly substantiated so far, but the debate took a political spin as its author applied it to [...]
Category: Europe and IT social networks in government Tags: Italy
