by Andrea Di Maio | December 20, 2012 | 5 Comments
For the fourth year in a row, here is my (absolutely personal) top ten in the area of government innovation. Over the last three years the title was “Top Ten for Government 2.0”, but this term is less relevant today. What is relevant is to focus on how governments around the world are looking for [...]
Category: e-government open government data scenario planning shared services in government Tags: Australia, Canada, Denmark, UK
by Andrea Di Maio | May 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
In the recent past I have shared my admiration for several women who are in leading IT positions in government. The more I meet people, the more it seems that women dwarf men in their ability to deal with complexity, adapt to new conditions, listen to opposing viewpoints, manage change and be effective leaders. I [...]
Category: IT management shared services in government web 2.0 in government Tags: Canada
by Andrea Di Maio | April 12, 2012 | 6 Comments
The Canadian Federal government has published its Open Government Action Plan, after a consultation with Canadian citizens launched last fall. The document is a well-rounded account of almost everything one can find in open government strategies and plans at federal, state and local level around the world, and is certainly influenced by Canada’s willingness to [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Canada, government 2.0, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | December 2, 2011 | 8 Comments
Yesterday I read that both Statistics Canada and the British government have announced the publication of new opn data sets The latter in particular seems to have created quite some interest, as data sets include personal health records, transport data, house prices and the weather As usual the blogosphere has been buzzing with enthusiasm and [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Canada, open government, UK
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 | 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 | April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
As recently reported by the Canadian press, the Privy Council Clerk, who heads the public sector in the country, called for modernizing the workplace, making reference to the role of web 2.0 technology to improve knowledge sharing and to the changing expectations and behaviors of new generations of government employees. Over the last several months [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Canada, employee-centric
by Andrea Di Maio | October 30, 2009 | 10 Comments
I spent two very intense weeks in the US and Canada, meeting hundreds of clients at all government levels on the topic of social media. I started in Orlando with chatting in the backstage and then on stage with Vivek Kundra, the US CIO, then I had countless one-on-ones and round tables with clients from [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Canada, Europe, government 2.0, social media, US
