by Andrea Di Maio | January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
Last Saturday a group of concerned and web-savvy Italian citizens met in Rome to give birth to a new political party (named “Insieme Italia”, i.e. “Italia Together”). The new party aims at “building shared strategies and actions to get out of the social and economic crisis that besiege the country” Associates have to accept a [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Italy, politics
by Andrea Di Maio | October 31, 2011 | 3 Comments
On November 8th at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, my colleague Dave Aron and I will have the pleasure to interview on stage Gerry Pennell, who is the CIO of the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games. He certainly has quite an exciting and tough job, being responsible for timely delivery and glitchless execution [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | June 17, 2011 | Comments Off
I had a client call fixed for today with a federal agency to discuss about the use of public cloud. The issues they were planning to discuss with me were all very interesting, looking into the pros and cons of private vs. public cloud, how to select vendors, how to assess risks, how to migrate. [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | January 17, 2011 | 1 Comment
I took a day off today to attend a round table held in the bilingual region of South Tyrol. The event was aimed at discussing the career prospects for engineers with undergraduates who are about to choose which university to apply for. I was there with three distinguished engineers who made good careers as entrepreneurs [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: future of government, higher education
by Andrea Di Maio | January 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
There is nothing better, and indeed more sad, than starting my New Year’s blogging with yet another not too exciting example from my own country, but so be it. Less than one month after our Minister of Justice and his colleague responsible for Public Service and Innovation proudly announced the “Vivifacile Giustizia” project (it sounds [...]
Category: Uncategorized e-government Tags: cost cutting, Italy
by Andrea Di Maio | December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
I still remember the first time I met Bryan Sivak, the CTO of Washington DC. It was February, few days after the major snowstorm. He made time to meet although logistics were challenging, and even apologized for not wearing a tie, as the dressing code had clearly being altered by snow plowing. I had only [...]
Category: Uncategorized e-government Tags: digital divide
by Andrea Di Maio | December 14, 2010 | 4 Comments
I’d like to share a personal experience that can be exemplary of the type of real or perceived conflicts between personal and professional role on social media. As I have always said, real and productive engagement on social media require people to be themselves and not just spokespersons of their employer (there are colleagues who [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | July 9, 2010 | 3 Comments
I have just visited Tokyo for the first time. For being such a heavy traveler throughout my life, I have come to discover this incredible city relatively late, but – as people say – better late than never. The first thing that strikes you about Tokyo, as you arrive from the airport, is its incredible [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | June 28, 2010 | 6 Comments
Last Friday we published the new Gartner Open Government Maturity Model, which is available to our clients. It provides government CIOs and strategic planners with a framework to measure the maturity level of their organization’s capabilities to effectively and efficiently engage constituents and other stakeholders in transforming service delivery and operations. It should be used [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | June 5, 2010 | 3 Comments
I bought my iPad (wifi only, 64 Gb) when I was in Chicago about a month ago. I also bought the Apple case, but in Albany NY as the Chicago store had run out of them (while the Albany one had run out of iPads…). I am not an Apple-maniac and I have never used [...]
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