by Andrea Di Maio | April 22, 2013 | 3 Comments
When people talk about smart cities, there seems to be an implicit assumption that those who get the concept and are able to lead the change must be demographically young. The same applies with other recent technology-driven phenomena, such as open government or government 2.0. Datapaloozas. hackatons, hangouts, unconferences: people who are over 40 can [...]
Category: smart government Tags: Italy, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | December 14, 2012 | 4 Comments
Yesterday Gartner held a local briefing in Milan on the topic of Smart Cities. This was attended by local government, vendors and research organizations. Bettina Tratz-Ryan, who is our lead for Sustainability research, and myself were joined by Renato Galliano, Director for Economic Innovation and University of the City of Milan, and Michele Vianello, General [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT smart government Tags: smart city
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 12, 2012 | Comments Off
A few days ago I gave a presentation about the future of government CIOs to the IT and business staff of a local government in the Netherlands. This is a rather affluent city, and one of the happy few that – thanks to its location and tax revenues – does not seem to have any [...]
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Category: smart government Tags: BYOD, Europe
by Andrea Di Maio | October 4, 2012 | 2 Comments
(WARNING: this is an unusually long post for my blog. However I want to set the foundations for a dialogue and new line of research, and I hope my reader will find it worthwhile) Over the last many years, information technology has been celebrated as a driver of business and social innovation, with an impact [...]
Category: public value of IT smart government Tags: government 2.0, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | September 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
Last Monday I had an inquiry with a small software vendor about a recently approved amendments to the Italian Digital Government Code according to which governments should favor open source vs. proprietary solutions. Article 68 says (see here, in Italian): Proprietary software acquisition is allowed only when a technical and economic evaluation shows that pre-.existing [...]
Category: open source in government smart government Tags: Italy
by Andrea Di Maio | September 24, 2012 | 4 Comments
Last Thursday I attended a panel about Smart Cities in the context of the ICT competitiveness week, organized by DG CONNECT of the European Commission. The purpose was to discuss how both the European vendor community and European cities can best position themselves in this growth market as competitive in terms of securing a growing [...]
Category: smart government Tags: European Commission, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | August 10, 2012 | 7 Comments
Yesterday and earlier today I had two quite interesting and revealing conversation on the overhyped theme of smart cities. The first one was about how to determine a set of criteria, toolkits, frameworks and so forth to advise cities about how to build a roadmap and self-assess with respect to “smartness” objectives. The second was [...]
Category: smart government Tags: smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | August 7, 2012 | Comments Off
Many of us are following with great interest and admiration the London Olympic games, and almost a year ago I had the privilege of interviewing on stage the CIO of the London Olympics. In a few days, also the whole games will be over, and – besides the reverberations of some of the most extraordinary [...]
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Category: Europe and IT smart government Tags: london 2012, olympics
by Andrea Di Maio | July 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
People have been following with a moderate sense of worry the financial crisis unfolding in Greece and other European countries, Despite how dramatic the situation has become in Greece, many have remained in denial about the possibility of a serious contagion to other vulnerable countries. However things have suddenly changed, as Valencia, Murcia, Catalonia and [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT open government data smart government Tags: euro crisis, government 2.0, open government, smart city
