by Andrea Di Maio | November 8, 2012 | Comments Off
Like many people around the world, I listened to the US President’s speech after his victory at the last election. I found one sentence particularly inspiring: “America is not about what can be done for us. It is about what can be done by us, together, through the hard and frustrating, but necessary work of [...]
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Category: cloud open government data shared services in government smart government Tags: government 2.0, GSA, Obama, OMB, US federal CIO, US federal CTO
by Andrea Di Maio | July 11, 2012 | 2 Comments
On Monday I read the news that GM’s CIO has decided to slash outsourcing in a move to transform IT and its role. As reported by InformationWeek: Today, about 90% of GM’s IT services, from running data centers to writing applications, are provided by outsourcing companies such as HP/EDS, IBM, Capgemini, and Wipro, and only [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | January 27, 2011 | 2 Comments
The US President made his second State of the Union address on January 25th (see full transcript from New York Times), touching both on what his administration has accomplished and, more importantly, on the challenges ahead and how they require bi-partisan approaches to be solved. Certainly an inspired and inspirational speech for an overseas observer [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, GSA, NIST, Obama, OMB
by Andrea Di Maio | October 10, 2009 | 3 Comments
The award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Barack Obama has both caught many by surprise and stressed how compelling his vision for change is on foreign policy. Some commentators have criticized this choice, indicating that it is more an award to hope than to achievement. Some of the processes he has set [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Obama, transparency
by Andrea Di Maio | September 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
As announced by US Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0 Summit (see NextGov article), the US government is about to release an Open Government Directive, further to President Obama’s executive memo dated January 21st. According to a recent NextGov article, The directive will lay out a structured schedule for the release of data [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Aneesh Chopra, Obama
by Andrea Di Maio | September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
As reported by the New York Times, last Friday President Obama said he will open up White House visitor logs on a regular basis for the first time in modern history. Visitor logs that will be disclosed include As the article says By the end of the year, the White House will begin posting online [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Obama, transparency
by Andrea Di Maio | September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just read an article on NextGov about some members of the open government community (I’m not exactly sure how that’s defined) expressing dissatisfaction on the fact that the White House would be too techno-centric in dealing with transparency issues. The article also mentions the relatively slow progress in drafting the open government directive (see [...]
Category: open government data Tags: crowdsourcing, Obama
by Andrea Di Maio | July 28, 2009 | 4 Comments
(UPDATED) During an interview on C-SPAN on July 26th, when asked by the interviewer whether he was personally using Twitter, the Obama’s Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that he does not, also because “for some reason Twitter is blocked on White House computers” (but primarily because he feels people already know enough about what it [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Obama, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Although I am on vacation, I keep receiving feeds and alerts from various blogs and publications, in between my teen age daughter’s short text messages asking to stay up with friends a little bit longer and unanswered calls to my younger son to know whether he’s still alive after a diving session. I noticed that [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Obama, transparency
by Andrea Di Maio | May 12, 2009 | 6 Comments
A White House document published yesterday with the FY 2010 budget request touches on cloud computing as a way to improve innovation, efficiency and effectiveness in federal IT. The document suggests that A number of pilot projects will be implemented to offer an opportunity to utilize more fully and broadly departmental and agency architectures to [...]
Category: cloud Tags: cloud computing, GSA, Obama, Vivek Kundra
