by Andrea Di Maio | June 22, 2011 | 5 Comments
Over the last 20 years and more we have heard all sorts of political statements highlighting how essential IT is to productivity and economic growth. Countless surveys have shown a clear correlation about factors like IT spending per capita and digital literacy, and growth and competitiveness of economies. Usually this leads to calls for greater [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: Italy, open government, taxes
by Andrea Di Maio | June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment
When I was in Canada last week I had a lovely lunch with clients from a provincial agency in the western part of the country. We were discussing about how to make effective use of social media for citizen engagement purposes and I made an example I use quite often (and gave in a previous [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Canada, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | June 14, 2011 | 3 Comments
Every week there are more examples of how disruptive social media like Facebook can be to politics. After the riots in North Africa and the demonstrations in Spain over the last few weeks, yesterday Italy added to the mix with an unexpectedly high turnout of voters for a popular poll about a number of topics [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Italy, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | May 29, 2011 | 3 Comments
I met the CIO and the IT strategist from a large government organization to discuss about social media and gov 2.0. The organization had been using Facebook and Twitter for some time to reach out to constituents, and the whole discussion was about what to do next. I made my usual point that the right [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | May 27, 2011 | 9 Comments
I spent a day in Brisbane, Queensland, where I had a chance to visit government organizations at the state and local level and discuss with them about social media strategies. The attitude to social media suddenly changed between December 2010 and January 2011, when massive rains caused the Brisbane river to overflow and flooded most [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | May 23, 2011 | 6 Comments
Last week I met the CIO of a government agency and we discussed about their current plans for internal collaboration, based on the deployment of a particular commercial solution. He seemed to have quite clear ideas about investment, deployment and sustainability of that initiative, for which he said he had users queuing for over 50 [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: collaboration, government 2.0, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | April 11, 2011 | 3 Comments
Yesterday a well-reputed Italian journalist aired a program highlighting the risks of the Internet and social networking, interviewing experts from service providers, law firms, consultancies about issues such as phishing, security, stalking, information leaks, and so forth. (see link to video, in Italian). I did not follow the program until when I read an outcry [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | April 5, 2011 | 3 Comments
During one of the sessions I held in my briefing tour on Gov 2.0 a member of the audience asked a quite typical question, which generated some debate with a clients and colleagues at a later stage. He asked how new generations of employees would fit into an environment based on rules and procedures that [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: digital society, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | March 24, 2011 | 3 Comments
We have heard many times about the role of mobile devices in rescuing people during natural disasters by following tweets, reading Facebook updates, looking at pictures on Flickr. We have also heard very often how crowdsourcing the solution to problems through idea or application contests can save money or improve quality of government services or [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: government 2.0, iPhone
by Andrea Di Maio | March 22, 2011 | 4 Comments
A few days ago Socialbakers published statistics about the penetration of Facebook in terms of number of users per city (please note that you need to connect with your Facebook profile to see the whole list). Results are quite interesting, since Caracas (Venezuela), Washington DC (USA) and Ankara (Turkey) seem to be the capital cities [...]
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