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 [...]
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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
by Andrea Di Maio | October 10, 2011 | Comments Off
Since when Washington DC launched its first AppsForDemocracy contest, under the leadership of its then CTO Vivek Kundra, several cities worldwide have embraced and piloted the concepts of open government and open data. New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto, Amsterdam, Paris, London are just a few of those that have been undertaking open [...]
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Category: open government data web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | October 3, 2011 | 3 Comments
A few days ago I had the chance to meet one of those individuals who have really embraced and driven openness in the government organization where he is responsible for IT. I was fascinated by hearing the story of how he was an agent of change, turned around the way IT was managed, dramatically improved [...]
Category: open government data web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | September 21, 2011 | Comments Off
As a founding member of the Open Government Partnership the US Federal Government published its national action plan. The plan does complement and not replace the open government directive and the plans that all agencies have in place. It focuses on three areas: Increasing Integrity and Transparency Managing Public Resources More Efficiently Improving Public Services [...]
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Category: open government data Tags: open government
