by Andrea Di Maio | November 23, 2011 | 4 Comments
While I was traveling in Australia I saw some Twitter traffic about the long-expected release of the Guidelines for External Use of Web 2.0 by the Canadian federal government. I had the pleasure of discussing this topic with officials at the Treasury Board and in other agencies quite a few times over the last couple [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Canada, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | November 23, 2011 | 6 Comments
After one and a half year I had a chance to meet again senator Kate Lundy, who is now the Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Cultural Affairs. She has been a very vocal supporter of government 2.0 and always passionate with innovative ways to use technology to engage citizens. While her new responsibility and [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: Australia, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | November 22, 2011 | 4 Comments
Over the last year there have been a few changes in high-profile jobs at the whole-of-government level both in the US and in the UK. In the US, Beth Noveck, deputy CTO dealing with open government left in January, while the federal CIO Vivek Kundra left in August, a few months after having set strategic [...]
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by Andrea Di Maio | November 14, 2011 | Comments Off
I recently returned from the Gartner Symposia in Orlando and in Barcelona, and I am now at the Gartner Symposium in Gold Coast. In both Orlando and Barcelona I had the opportunity to discuss cloud computing and the use of social media in government, as well as how to use and manage technology to make [...]
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Category: cloud smart government web 2.0 in government Tags: symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 10, 2011 | Comments Off
During the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona I had a chance to talk with a few clients from three of the so-called PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain), and in particular those that have either for IMF and EU bail out help. Two conversations, both with people having central IT policy and planning responsibility, [...]
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Category: smart government web 2.0 in government Tags: symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
My busy first day at the Gartner European Symposium in Barcelona ended with a quite interesting round table with a few clients on the topic of social media in government. Almost immediately we ended up discussing about the distinction between internal and external use of social media. One attendee shared that, despite the success their [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: social media, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 7, 2011 | Comments Off
I just ran a workshop at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona about the use of social media. In the workshop I raised for questions: Do your social media policies cover different roles and how? – This was meant to discuss whether participants’ organizations have only a blanket social media policy that applies to all employees, [...]
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Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, social media, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 6, 2011 | Comments Off
There will be plenty of government specific content at the Barcelona Symposium, which starts on Monday November 7th. Most of the sessions take place on Monday, but there will be some repeats during the week, and you are welcome to say hello and book a 1on1 meeting with Massimiliano Claps or myself if you are [...]
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Category: cloud smart government Symposium web 2.0 in government Tags: symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | November 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
A few days after I met him in DC, the US Federal CIO Steven Van Roekel addressed an audience of technology companies in Palo Alto, summarizing the main directions of his work for the months to come. He stressed efforts in four main areas: data center consolidation and cloud, modernization and mobility for the workforce, [...]
Category: cloud IT management web 2.0 in government Tags: US federal CIO
by Andrea Di Maio | October 20, 2011 | Comments Off
As the end of the largest Gartner Symposium ever is approaching, I thought I would like to share some of the take aways from interacting with hundreds of government clients over the last four and a half days: Smart Government Serious budgetary concerns are percolating through US federal government agencies and, while state and local [...]
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Category: cloud smart government web 2.0 in government Tags: social media, symposium
