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 | January 30, 2012 | 3 Comments
The last blow to the open government cause in the US federal government just came from the resignation of Aneesh Chopra as the US Government CTO and one of the driving forces behind the 2009 Open Government Directive. Last yeat his deputy, Beth Noveck left, followed a few months later by the US federal CIO [...]
Category: open government data web 2.0 in government Tags: Aneesh Chopra, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | December 20, 2011 | Comments Off
On December 13 Fast Company’s blogger Hana Schank posted about the New York’s Digital Deficiency, providing some evidence that open data application contests, which are being used big time and with some media coverage in NY, do not work as well as many claim. Alex Howard, one of the most prolific and accurate bloggers when [...]
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Category: open government data web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, open data
by Andrea Di Maio | December 16, 2011 | Comments Off
The struggling open government initiative that the federal US government launched last year may receive better funding than it did for the current fiscal year. As reported by NextGov and in blog post by the Sunlight Foundation, the current appropriation bill may grant $12.4 million, more than 50% more than the $8 million received this [...]
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Category: open government data web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | December 2, 2011 | 8 Comments
Yesterday I read that both Statistics Canada and the British government have announced the publication of new opn data sets The latter in particular seems to have created quite some interest, as data sets include personal health records, transport data, house prices and the weather As usual the blogosphere has been buzzing with enthusiasm and [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Canada, open government, UK
by Andrea Di Maio | December 1, 2011 | 5 Comments
I read an interesting post by Glyn Moody, who had just attended the South Tyrol Free Software Conference and makes an interesting parallel between open data and open source. Just as the success of free software led to the founding on companies based around that freely-available code, so I think we are about to see [...]
Category: open government data open source in government Tags:
by Andrea Di Maio | November 11, 2011 | 2 Comments
Like many other countries, Italy has launched its Apps4Italy contest (deadline is January 10, 2012). This is promoted by the Italian government and other organizations, such as the Piemonte Region and a few Internet-related associations. It is looking for further sponsors, whose participation would allow to increase the amount available for prizes. Organizations providing data, [...]
Category: open government data Tags: government 2.0, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | October 24, 2011 | Comments Off
This morning I sat in a panel on technology innovation in the context of the ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference, held in Williamsburg, Virginia. The panel, which was moderated by Rob Atkinson (President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation), featured Lisa Schlosser (Deputy CIO at OMB), Peter Tseronis (CIO at Department of Energy) and Curt [...]
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Category: cloud open government data smart government Tags: innovation
by Andrea Di Maio | October 18, 2011 | 5 Comments
Italy has been on the news over the last few months, besides its colorful politics, for the sudden discovery that it is not immune to the economic and financial crisis that is storming across Europe. While just a few months ago Italians were looking at Greece, Ireland and even Spain with some (largely unjustified) sense [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open government
