by Andrea Di Maio | August 24, 2010 | Comments Off
During my stay in Finland I had a number of interesting meetings, two of which with CIOs having responsibility respectively at the national and local government level. In one case, the CIO is overseeing a significant consolidation and centralization program that will rationalize computing assets and applications from several different agencies . While a shared [...]
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Category: shared services in government Tags: cloud computing, Europe
by Andrea Di Maio | August 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
This morning I met a group of people from a ministry in Helsinki, Finland, and I run through some of my material on government 2.0. As I faced the topic of overlapping personal and professional identities, and how employees can leverage personal use of social media for their employer’s benefits (Gartner clients can read Government [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Europe, government 2.0
by Andrea Di Maio | December 20, 2009 | 4 Comments
On December 13 2009 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was injured in Milan (Italy) by a mentally disturbed individual who hit him with a statuette. Shortly afterwards Facebook and other social media have been stormed by discussions to support Berlusconi as well as his attacker, including some conspiracy theories claiming that the whole attack [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: Europe, US
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
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 | 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
