Andrea DiMaio

While Tina Nunno and I were preparing the interview to Vivek Kundra for Gartner Symposium in Orlando, we discussed about a question we did not have time to ask him; what is the cost of transparency?
Nobody would argue that making public data easier to find and consume is not a good thing. However making data [...]

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I just saw the announcement of a new application that is available for either iPhone 3GS or for Android and allows people to visualize stimulus package contributions through an augmented reality application. As far as I can tell, it is pretty much like Google Maps and StreetView to visualize where government money is being used.
Great [...]

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Reading a blog post on Programmableweb I’ve been reminded (as if there was a need) that there are six different mashup contests currently going on, including two in Australia, one in San Francisco and one in New York.
As I said a while ago, this is a sign that government 2.0 is reaching what we at [...]

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Over the last few days there has been quite some debate about an article Against Transparency by Lawrence Lessig. In this article Lessig, who ironically sits on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation, looks at the dark side of transparency, something I have touched upon in a couple of previous posts (see here and [...]

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The award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Barack Obama has both caught many by surprise and stressed how compelling his vision for change is on foreign policy. Some commentators have criticized this choice, indicating that it is more an award to hope than to achievement. Some of the processes he has set [...]

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In a previous post I raised, amongst others, the issue of authenticity and quality of open government data. Yesterday, this came up in an interview appeared on the O’Reilly Radar, to Raymond Mosley, Director of the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and Michael L. Wash, CIO of the Government Printing Office (GPO).
The actual news [...]

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I just read an interesting article postulating that Brits would be better off than Americans when it comes to open government. Referring to the call that the UK Cabinet Office is making to application developers for yet another Appsfordemocracy-like initiative, the article says that the greater maturity of freedom of information in the US with [...]

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As announced by US Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0 Summit (see NextGov article), the US government is about to release an Open Government Directive, further to President Obama’s executive memo dated January 21st. According to a recent NextGov article,
The directive will lay out a structured schedule for the release of data in [...]

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While the echo of a thrilling and successful Gov 2.0 Summit still resounds in the Beltway and beyond, I want to complete the sequence of sobering and somewhat pessimistic observations I have purposely been posting this week to counterbalance hype and enthusiasm.
According to an article published by Government Executive, 
… Hundreds of thousands of Americans have [...]

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During the Government 2,0 Expo in D.C., the winners of the Apps for America contest were selected, with much cheering and enthusiasm on Twitter and other social media following closely this event in D.C.
I went through the three winners and looked at the list of submissions, which were 46, one less than the Apps for [...]

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