by Andrea Di Maio | November 28, 2012 | Comments Off
The European Cloud Strategy published last September is a relatively realistic document, aiming at addressing issues of self-certification, procurement, and contracting. While there was an initial fear that a EU strategy would have led to building local solutions and infrastructure, the outcome is reasonable and most likely quite useful across different industry sectors. One of [...]
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Category: cloud Europe and IT Tags: EU
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: cloud IT management 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: e-government Europe and IT 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: e-government Europe and IT 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: e-government Europe and IT 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: e-government Europe and IT Tags: EU, European Commission, procurement
