by Andrea Di Maio | March 13, 2009 | Comments Off
While on the plane yesterday, I read more carefully part of the UK Public Sector Reform Agenda, which I covered in a previous post. The section that caught my attention was the one on Active Welfare and High Skills, concerning how the UK benefits and skills system is organizing to face the global economic crisis. [...]
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Category: social networks in government Tags: recession, social security, unemployment
by Andrea Di Maio | November 26, 2008 | Comments Off
Earlier today an article about the role of open source software in difficult economic times made me reflect about whether government organizations will become more or less interested in open source with the budget cuts and cost saving targets many of them are being or will soon be faced with. I know, this is a [...]
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Category: open source in government Tags: open source, recession
by Andrea Di Maio | November 21, 2008 | Comments Off
Yesterday I was invited to give a short keynote and moderate a round table at an event in Brussels (see webcast) where representatives from the ICT industry, government, standardization bodies and various associations met to discuss about whether and how to improve standardization processes in Europe and worldwide. As part of my keynote, where I [...]
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Category: scenario planning Tags: recession
