by Andrea Di Maio | December 29, 2009 | 17 Comments
Almost inevitably the last few days of the year feature an impressive number of lists – on newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio and TV programs – about the best and the worst that happened during the year that is about to end. As 2009 is my first full year as a blogger, I could not [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: Aneesh Chopra, Apps.gov, Australia, EU, government 2.0, UK government, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | November 19, 2009 | 13 Comments
Every other year the ministers responsible for e-government in the EU member states, candidate accession countries and those in European free trade area meet to discuss respective progress on e-government as well as common future objectives. This year they are meeting at a conference in Malmo (Sweden) on November 19-20. Why a declaration? The most [...]
Category: e-government web 2.0 in government Tags: EU, European Commission, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | October 16, 2009 | 26 Comments
Over the last several months I have stressed both the promise and the danger of the many activities around the use of web 2.0 technologies in and by governments, currently nicknames as “government 2.0” (incidentally, I am working on a research note with a formal Garner definition of this term). Most of my criticisms to [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: employee-centric, EU, Europe
by Andrea Di Maio | August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
I spent most of the day attending an interesting workshop held as part of the European Forum in Alpbach, a beautiful town hidden in the mountains of the the Tyrol region in Austria. The topic of the workshop was the conflict between citizens and public administration in government 2.0, and there was quite an impressive [...]
Category: e-government web 2.0 in government Tags: benchmarks, EU, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | August 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Last week I read an interesting exchange between David Davis, former UK shadow home secretary, and Google about whether Google Health and the likes would be a good idea or not to store patient records in the UK, something I mentioned in a previous blog post. When politicians look into private solutions to storing citizen [...]
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Category: e-government Tags: EU, Google, health
by Andrea Di Maio | July 2, 2009 | 7 Comments
Yesterday Capgemini announced that it was awarded by the European Commission a four-year extension of its seven-year e-government benchmark. From the announcement it looks like it will still be a supply-side assessment, applied on a regular basis to 31 countries. I have not seen any further information about the details of the benchmarking methodology and [...]
Category: e-government Tags: EU, European Commission, ranking
by Andrea Di Maio | June 12, 2009 | Comments Off
Two days ago I had a fascinating conversation with a group of government officials who are looking into the so-called post-i2010 work, i.e. the definition of the policy priorities for the European information society for the next 5 years. i2010 was the set of policies that implemented the so-called Lisbon Strategy, revolving around the role [...]
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Category: e-government Europe and IT Tags: EU, European Commission
by Andrea Di Maio | June 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Isn’t this a fascinating question? It goes without saying that I have little clue about the answer, but I’m sure this is something European policy-makers need to look into pretty soon, especially as they work toward a new set of policies for the post-2010 Information Society. There are two facts that stem out of this [...]
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Category: Europe and IT Tags: EU, Europe, European Commission
by Andrea Di Maio | May 29, 2009 | 5 Comments
I’ve been pondering about this post for a long time, actually even before I was one of the Gartner bloggers. This position of mine has developed over almost 20 years, since when I started being involved in cooperative research & development projects funded by the European Union under the so-called Framework Program for Research and [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: EU, Europe, Framework Program
by Andrea Di Maio | May 19, 2009 | 4 Comments
Over the last few weeks the US administration has attracted a lot of attention through a number of bold IT-related initiatives. One amongst many, its move toward the adoption of cloud computing. As discussed in a previous post, this focuses primarily on the establishment of a “private cloud”, and sets the foundation for a new [...]
Category: cloud Tags: EIF, EU, interoperability
