by Andrea Di Maio | September 24, 2012 | 4 Comments
Last Thursday I attended a panel about Smart Cities in the context of the ICT competitiveness week, organized by DG CONNECT of the European Commission. The purpose was to discuss how both the European vendor community and European cities can best position themselves in this growth market as competitive in terms of securing a growing [...]
Category: smart government Tags: European Commission, smart city
by Andrea Di Maio | December 17, 2010 | 7 Comments
On December 15, in conjunction with the conference on Lift Off Open Government (see previous post), the European Commission issued its communication to to other European institutions (such as the Parliament and the Council) about the European eGovernment Action Plan 2011-2015. The subtitle of the communication is quite intriguing: Harnessing ICT to promote smart, sustainable [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT Tags: European Commission, open government
by Andrea Di Maio | May 27, 2010 | 6 Comments
On May 25 and 26 I did attend the World Congress on Information Technology held in sunny, chilly and beautiful Amsterdam. This was a massive event with more than 4000 delegates and over 300 speakers organized on eight parallel tracks, covering themes like health, safety, mobility, energy and so forth. I had the pleasure of [...]
Category: e-government open government data Tags: European Commission, government 2.0, open government, US federal CTO
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
by Andrea Di Maio | April 10, 2010 | 8 Comments
Last Friday I was a panelist at Tecnimap 2010, a Spanish government-focused conference that takes place every two years and was organized in beautiful Zaragoza this time. The session was about the Malmo Ministerial Declaration that was signed last November by ministers in EU member states to agree about a number of common objectives (see [...]
Category: e-government Europe and IT Tags: European Commission, Malmo
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 | July 3, 2009 | 3 Comments
Yesterday I met a European service provider and system integrator that is quite active in the public sector (both government and health care) and financial services, mostly in its own country. I used to know this vendor pretty well from my times at the European Commission (prior to joining Gartner), as they used to participate [...]
Category: e-government web 2.0 in government Tags: citizen portal, European Commission
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
