Andrea DiMaio

Over the last week I’ve had a number of conversations with clients, colleagues and friends about how to deal with online social media.
Some people are firm believers in the power of social networking and use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others very heavily, blurring personal and professional profiles and details quite freely. Others are scared to [...]

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Over the last few days I had a few conversations with government and quasi government organizations in Europe that operate under some form of directive that promotes or strongly encourage the use of open source. Most of our clients are professionals in the IT departments, and in many cases they seem to barely stand the [...]

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It looks like government 2.0 enthusiasts feel compelled to give their own definitions of what government is. Yesterday I posted my views about why seeing “government as a platform”, as Tim O’Reilly does, may be slightly simplistic (and thanks to all those who posted their very valuable comments ). 
Today it is Mark Drapeau’s turn. Incidentally, [...]

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Among the many calls for commoditization of government IT and the arguments made to support a move toward cloud-based services (both Infrastructure and Software as a Service), some news I read today and a later client conversation made me wonder whether we are not getting it all wrong.
The news was from earlier today on NextGov, [...]

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Two days ago I posted about the continued unhealthy practices applied at the US border in airports (all people entering the country have to put their hands on fingerprint readers, but there is no provision to clean hands before doing so).
A few minutes ago I received an email by the US President’s advisor on Homeland [...]

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Two and a half months ago, when I entered the US on the very week when the H1N1 virus was being announced (the disease was called swine flu at the time, to then switch to a more politically correct term), I posted about the lack of hygiene at the US border. All people entering the [...]

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Europeans like me do not really feel much about Independence Day.
Where I grew up, I spent more time studying the convoluted decline of the Roman empire or the power struggle between mighty port cities in Italy than the birth of the richest nation on Earth
Europeans like me feel they are so much surrounded with history [...]

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By now I think many agree that the evolution of e-government (and in particular the electronic delivery of information and services to various stakeholders) will  follow a “government 2.0” path. While I really hate the term “government 2.0”, it is effective at summarizing the use of web 2.0 technologies that will have a transformational impact [...]

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Yesterday I spent a lovely evening with my son’s classmates, their parents and teachers for the traditional school-year-end pizza party. As my wife is a teacher too, I ended up sitting at a table with many teachers.
My son is in seventh grade: some of his teachers are in their mid thirties, others in their late [...]

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I’ve been pondering about this post for a long time, actually even before I was one of the Gartner bloggers. This position of mine has developed over almost 20 years, since when I started being involved in cooperative research & development projects funded by the European Union under the so-called Framework Program for Research and [...]

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