by Andrea Di Maio | May 10, 2013 | 5 Comments
On May 9, after a longer-than-expected preparation, the Open Data Policy announced as part of the US Digital Government Strategy has been issued together with an executive order signed by President Obama about Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information. As one reads the order, browses through the first few pages [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open data, US CIO, US CTO
by Andrea Di Maio | April 4, 2013 | 2 Comments
Earlier today I was being briefed by a major vendor about their public sector offering. This vendor provides – among other things – content management solutions. In passing, I asked whether they plan to add support for open data creation, management, mash-up, but they answered that they are seeing less demand for this than just [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open data
by Andrea Di Maio | January 30, 2013 | 4 Comments
Those who happen to read my blog know that I am rather cynical about many enthusiastic pronouncements around open data. One of the points I keep banging on is that the most common perspective is that open data is just something that governments ought to publish for businesses and citizens to use it. This perspective [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open data, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | January 15, 2013 | 9 Comments
Yesterday I had yet another client conversation – this time with a mid-size municipality in the north of Europe – on the topic of the economic value generated through open data. The problem we discussed is the same I highlighted in a post last year: nobody argues the potential long term value of open data [...]
Category: open government data Tags: government 2.0
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 | November 20, 2012 | 8 Comments
I read yesterday on Computerworld UK that UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s special envoy on the UN’s post-2015 development goals has said that he is ‘disappointed’ by how much the government’s open datasets have been used so far. I wonder how this can be a surprise. Despite the efforts of so many governments, advocacy groups, [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open data, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | November 8, 2012 | Comments Off
Like many people around the world, I listened to the US President’s speech after his victory at the last election. I found one sentence particularly inspiring: “America is not about what can be done for us. It is about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of [...]
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Category: cloud open government data shared services in government smart government Tags: government 2.0, GSA, Obama, OMB, US federal CIO, US federal CTO
by Andrea Di Maio | October 22, 2012 | 5 Comments
Among the flurry of activities and deja-vu around open data that governments worldwide, in all tiers are pursuing to increase transparency and fuel a data economy, I found something really worth reading in a report that was recently published by the Danish government. “Good Basic Data for Everyone – A Driver for Growth and Efficiency” [...]
Category: open government data Tags: government 2.0, privacy
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 11, 2012 | 7 Comments
In his relentless campaign for the importance of open data, Alex Howard published an interesting article where he mentions a recent press release by Gartner that highlights the “big data makes organization smarter, but open data makes the richer”. The press release is based on a research note by my colleague David Newman (subscription required), [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open data, open government
