by Andrea Di Maio | April 22, 2011 | 3 Comments
As I wrote in a recent post, some if not most of the activities supporting the Open Government Directive are under threat as a consequence of the difficult budgetary situation. More recent news show that the funds available for Data.gov, the IT Dashboard and some of the cloud-related initiatives may be 8 rather than 2 [...]
Category: open government data Tags: EU, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | March 31, 2011 | 8 Comments
On March 30th the UK Cabinet Office published its long-awaited IT strategy, which is interesting and aggressive in many respects. It touches upon several areas of concern for IT effectiveness and efficiency. It does start by recognizing that there are waste and failures in government IT and suggesting that this is the priority to be [...]
Category: IT management cloud Tags: EU, UK
by Andrea Di Maio | February 22, 2011 | 5 Comments
Yesterday Capgemini published the latest version of its benchmarking of e-government services across the EU, continuing a tradition started by the European Commission several years ago. I need to provide full disclosure here, for those who have not read my earlier positions on e-government benchmarking, be it EU, UN, or various consulting firms. I have [...]
Category: e-government Tags: EU, ranking
by Andrea Di Maio | December 28, 2010 | 8 Comments
As I did last year, I decided to share my personal top ten in the area of government 2.0 and the likes. Once more, I am following the tradition of many top tens, by going in reverse order, from number ten to number one. This ranking is my own, o course, and – as such [...]
Category: cloud e-government open government data Tags: digital divide, EU, government 2.0, GSA, OMB, social media
by Andrea Di Maio | December 23, 2010 | 2 Comments
A few days ago I criticized the EU Action Plan on eGovernment, by stressing its limitations but also recognizing the difficulties of developing plans in areas where the EU has close to no regulatory power and can mostly leverage its political influence. A comment to my post highlighted that in looking at what happened in [...]
Category: e-government Tags: EU, local government
by Andrea Di Maio | December 16, 2010 | 5 Comments
On December 15 and 16 the Belgian EU presidency and the European Commission are holding in Brussels a conference with an inspiring title: Lift-Off Toward Open Government. From what I can tell, this is as far as inspiration goes, because what I have seen so far through its program, opening speech and several tweets, does [...]
Category: Europe and IT e-government Tags: EU, government 2.0, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | April 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
(Expanding on a previous post) Electronic identity schemes and smart cards have been a long-standing issue for most e-government programs in Europe. Spain happens to have one of the most widely deployed identity cards (called DNI) and one of the EU project (STORK) deals with how to use each other’s cards when dealing with administrations [...]
Category: Europe and IT e-government Tags: EU, European Commission, ID card
by Andrea Di Maio | April 11, 2010 | 3 Comments
(Expanding on a previous post) Simple Procedures Online for Cross-border Services (SPOCS) is a European pilot project focusing on supporting the implementation of the Services Directive, which is supposed to help businesses establish themselves across borders more easily, dealing with complex and somewhat unique administrative procedures in a much more efficient and comprehensible way. One [...]
Category: Europe and IT e-government Tags: EU, EU service directive, European Commission
by Andrea Di Maio | April 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
(Expanding on a previous post) PEPPOL is not a beverage or a miraculous cleaning powder. It stands for Pan-European Public Procurement On Line and is a European collaborative project funded by the European Commission and engaging several EU member states, which aims to increase the ability of suppliers in a given member state to respond [...]
Category: Europe and IT e-government Tags: EU, European Commission, procurement
by Andrea Di Maio | February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments
Earlier today I got an email from the epractice.eu initiative – which publicizes e-government progress and best practices in the European Union – about a new community they have put together, named PIKE. Here is its description: The PIKE community at ePractice.eu is an initiative, running in parallel to the PIKE Fast Track network, funded [...]
Category: e-government Tags: EU
