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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by Andrea Di Maio | May 23, 2010 | 5 Comments
I am not fanatic about soccer, although it is the most important sport in my country. I became a soccer fan in 1965, when I was a little kid, not even a first-grader, and watched Inter Milan win what would have been its last Champions League until yesterday. After that, what looked like an invincible [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
I do spend a fair amount on social media like Twitter and Facebook, and – although most of my professional acquaintances are non-Italian – I have come to know a few Italian “bloggers” who have been early users of social media and advise enterprises about the dos and don’ts of online engagement. Recently I came [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Facebook, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | March 26, 2010 | 3 Comments
Earlier this week I attended a videoconference with the CIO and a few professors from a leading European university, to discuss social media strategies for higher education. I am not an expert in higher ed, but they wanted to have a sense of what is happening in the broader public sector when it comes to [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: open government
by Andrea Di Maio | March 18, 2010 | 3 Comments
As a Gartner analyst I started covering open source software in government quite a few years ago. Those were the times when the city of Munich had taken its historical decision to switch to an open source desktop and when some Spanish, French, Scandinavian, South American government organizations and entire jurisdictions declared “war on commercial [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: open government, open source
by Andrea Di Maio | March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments
While I was listening to the webcast of a session held at MIT about the Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband Enabled World, I heard a very interesting question that came form the audience (at 40 mins 50 secs in the video). The gentleman, who represented a network of people working across sectors, made [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | January 29, 2010 | 14 Comments
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just issued an interim policy for employees who officially represent the agency online. I assume this apply to whomever is either writing on a blog, or running a group or editing a page on a social media, or responding to a post in his or her official capacity. The policy [...]
Category: social networks in government Uncategorized Tags: government 2.0, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | January 20, 2010 | 12 Comments
In my previous post I shared my frustration with the ambiguous difference between participation and collaboration in the Open Government Directive. In drafting my advice to Gartner clients about how to develop their Open Government Plans, I have highlighted this ambiguity and made the following assumption: The distinction between participation and collaboration is very subtle [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: collaboration, participation
by Andrea Di Maio | January 6, 2010 | 2 Comments
Yesterday I read a most amazing news: German banks as well as a few companies (Symantec being one) were hit by something incredibly similar to the Millennium (or Y2K) Bug, i.e. the inability of many computer programs to deal with dates past January 1st 2000, due to the old tradition of using two digits only [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: risk management
by Andrea Di Maio | December 22, 2009 | 5 Comments
Lately the terms “smart” or “smarter” have become quite fashionable in combination with terms like “city”, “planet” or “government”. Vendors such as IBM, Oracle, Cisco and others use this adjective to allude to how the use of information technology can help government agencies or entire jurisdictions to better achieve their strategic objectives. Like most catchy [...]
Category: open government data Uncategorized Tags: government 2.0, smart city
