by Andrea Di Maio | February 9, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Italian government, after dealing with the financial emergency and market pressures by introducing new austerity measures, has shifted gear, looking into initiatives that can help reignite a much needed economic growth. In this context, it announced a new digital agenda (see here and here, both in Italian) and a new governance structure involving the [...]
Category: Europe and IT e-government open government data smart government Tags: digital society, Italy, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | February 1, 2012 | 5 Comments
The UK Government Digital Service created by Minister Maude under the leadership of Mike Bracken (ex-Guardian) just released a much-awaited beta version of its new unified web site for public sector, at www.gov.uk. This is still far from being a full replacement of the current government portal Directgov, but gives a pretty good idea of [...]
Category: Europe and IT e-government open government data Tags: Directgov, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | December 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
In previous posts, research notes and press releases both I and my colleague David Furlonger have been warning our clients about the need for CIOs and IT leaders to start preparing for the consequences of a euro crisis. Understandably many people are in denial about the possibility that the euro breaks up, or that their [...]
Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | December 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
Over the last few days we had a good coverage of the research note (client access required) that David Furlonger and I wrote about the euro. The press in the UK (e.g. the Financial Times and Computer Weekly ), in Germany (e.g. Silicon.de and Computerwoche) and in France (Le Monde Informatique) picked on our press [...]
Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | December 9, 2011 | Comments Off
As part of the research that my colleague David Furlonger and I are doing about the IT impact of the euro crisis, we are gathering anecdotal evidence of preparedness (or lack thereof) in IT organizations around the world. It would be very helpful if you would fill this very short questionnaire to give us a [...]
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Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | December 7, 2011 | 5 Comments
Before joining Gartner I spent a few years at the European Commission, where I was lucky enough to work on one of the most exciting projects at the time, which was the implementation of the single European currency. I was tasked with helping understand and prepare for the IT impact of the change, ranging from [...]
Category: Europe and IT IT management Tags: euro crisis
by Andrea Di Maio | November 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
Over the last few months we have been witnessing a deterioration of sovereign debts, the vulnerability of financial services organizations, a new slowdown for the economy, high unemployment, social tensions in countries that need to implement unprecedented austerity measures. Despite all this, the IT industry seems to be doing remarkably well, and the pace of [...]
Category: Europe and IT e-government Tags: government 2.0, information society
by Andrea Di Maio | October 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
Sometimes personal experience is a powerful source of data for a government-related blog. Yesterday I was one of the millions of Italians who tried to fill their census forms online rather than on paper. I would have thought that the statistical office would plan for an easily foreseeable spike in demand or at least advise [...]
Category: Europe and IT e-government Tags: Italy
by Andrea Di Maio | May 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
A few days ago I had a conversation with people from a southern European country about the state of government IT in Europe, with particular reference to what the European Commission is doing on large-scale projects and their benchmarking activities to compare progress across EU Member States. We agreed that, bas on our collective experience [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | May 13, 2011 | Comments Off
I often engage in discussions of a more personal nature on Facebook, where I happen to debate about politics, music, movies, technology and more. The other day I saw a post by a well-reputed Italian university professor about some usability shortcomings of the Italian railways web site. Quite a few commentators, including myself, supported his [...]
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Category: Europe and IT e-government Tags: IT management, Italy
