by Andrea Di Maio | September 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
Yesterday I had a lovely conversation with a client from south America about their social media communication plan. The client’s first name was Alexandre and I was surprised when I heard a female voice, as I thought it was a male name. This was only mildly embarrassing but certainly comforting for somebody who carries a [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: employee-centric, social software
by Andrea Di Maio | November 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Terms like smart city, smart government or smarter planet have been used over the last two or three years by several vendors to indicate a set of additional capabilities than governments should possess to make their jurisdictions more sustainable in economic, societal and environmental terms. A working definition of smart city is provided in Gartner [...]
Category: e-government Tags: cloud computing, smart city, social software, symposium
by Andrea Di Maio | July 6, 2009 | 6 Comments
Earlier today, when I was at the airport boarding for San Francisco, I got an email from a friend who pointed me to a blog post (in Italian) by somebody I do not really know. The first few lines were the following: There is no single day that my radar does not detect live-some objects. [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: social software
by Andrea Di Maio | June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments
In a previous post I anticipated that the Italian minister for innovation and public administration wanted to ban Facebook and other social sites. This may be the consequence of a directive he issued on May 26th, available as a scanned document on the relevant department’s web site (in Italian only). Whereas other countries, such as [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: social software
by Andrea Di Maio | June 17, 2009 | 4 Comments
Yes, you’ve read it right. I met a client today in South East Asia who asked me this question after having attended a presentation by a small consulting firm that claims to have great experience on government 2.0. What one of the consultants told them was that they should – indeed – create a government [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Facebook, social software
by Andrea Di Maio | April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments
Yesterday I posted a conversation with a colleague about whether government organizations (and parliaments in particular) should use consumer social media also for internal purposes. I thought I’d share the rest of our email conversation, as I suspect this is quite exemplary of discussions several government clients are having. Here is what my colleague said: [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook, LinkedIn, parliament, social software, Twitter
by Andrea Di Maio | April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
Yesterday I participated in an interesting discussion with Gartner colleagues about how to deploy collaborative and social networking capabilities in public sector organizations. In particular we were discussing the IT strategy document of a parliamentary organization. A colleague of mine said: The only thing that’s missing is not working on or adding collaborative / social [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: consumerization, Facebook, LinkedIn, parliament, social software, Twitter
