by Andrea Di Maio | June 21, 2010 | 7 Comments
Last Friday I had a great conversation with the CEO of a technology transfer organization in Singapore who was telling me how several countries are still looking at Singapore as a great example for its accomplishments. We discussed about how it may be difficulty to replicate Singapore’s success in larger jurisdictions, with more decentralized governance [...]
Category: social networks in government web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, Singapore
by Andrea Di Maio | May 17, 2010 | 5 Comments
Last week I had a wonderful dinner with a friend and client from Singapore. While tasting some exquisite spicy crabs, we ended up discussing about similarities and differences between countries when it comes to IT-enabled innovation in government. He told me that, anecdotally, over the years they had discovered more similarities with Scandinavian countries than [...]
Category: e-government Tags: Singapore
by Andrea Di Maio | June 19, 2009 | 3 Comments
I’ve been in Singapore many times, although just for a few days each time, and I’ve come to the conclusion that it is one of my favorite destinations. It all starts with experiencing one of the best flight services in the world (certainly the best I’ve tried). Does not matter if one travels business class [...]
Category: e-government Tags: employee-centric, Singapore
by Andrea Di Maio | April 16, 2009 | Comments Off
I have been invited to participate in the upcoming iGov Global Exchange, which will take place in Singapore between June 15 and 19. I will be speaking in one of the parallel tracks on June 15, about Strategic Sourcing for E-Government Services. As the track description makes reference to collaboration between government and industry through [...]
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Category: social networks in government Tags: citizen-driven, conference, iGov, Singapore
