by Andrea Di Maio | May 30, 2010 | 4 Comments
This is one of those posts where I need to stress again – although this is already written at the bottom of the blog page – that I am expressing an opinion that is absolutely personal, does not constitute a Gartner position and does not appear in any of our research notes. A few days [...]
Category: e-government Tags: Italy, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | May 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
Yesterday the Chancellor of the new coalition government in the UK, George Osborne, announced some draconian measures to save money, which will affect IT spending and some high-profile programs, which confirmed by the Queen’s speech today As reported by CIO UK yesterday and today, the identity card and biometric passport programs may both be axed, [...]
Category: e-government Tags: ID card, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | January 27, 2010 | 4 Comments
Today the UK Cabinet Office released the much awaited document describing the UK IT strategy for the next 10 years: Government ICT Strategy: smarter, cheaper, greener. This is a very comprehensive and well structured strategy document, which lays out the priorities for the UK government and the broader public sector in rather clear terms. Unlike [...]
Category: cloud e-government Tags: UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | January 21, 2010 | 7 Comments
As anticipated in its report Putting the Front Line First: Smarter Government (see earlier blog post), the UK government has officially launched its open data repository data.gov.uk. Early comments (see here) are positive, when comparing this to its US counterpart Data.gov, which has fewer data sets than the UK one, although it has been in [...]
Category: open government data Tags: UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | December 29, 2009 | 17 Comments
Almost inevitably the last few days of the year feature an impressive number of lists – on newspapers, magazines, web sites, radio and TV programs – about the best and the worst that happened during the year that is about to end. As 2009 is my first full year as a blogger, I could not [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: Aneesh Chopra, Apps.gov, Australia, EU, government 2.0, UK government, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | December 9, 2009 | 8 Comments
This has been quite a week, with US, Australian and British governments issuing their reports and directives on government 2.0. As usual, the longest and most comprehensive report comes from the UK, with its “Putting the Frontline First: smarter government”, as a sequel to the impressive Digital Britain report published last June (see an excellent [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | July 30, 2009 | 4 Comments
On July 21st, with a post on the Digital Engagement blog, Neil Williams, head of corporate digital channels at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in the UK government, shared a Template Twitter strategy for Government Departments. This is a significant step forward not just for the UK but for many governments around [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: Twitter, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | June 1, 2009 | 9 Comments
One topic that I discuss a lot with government clients is about what codes of conduct they should develop to regulate the use of social media by civil servants. There are quite a few examples around the world, but very often consultants as well as government officials point to policies developed by private sector organizations, [...]
Category: social networks in government Tags: code of conduct, New Zealand, UK government
by Andrea Di Maio | May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
Earlier today I had an interesting conversation with a vendor that supports an open source product in the area of application infrastructure. They started from Australia, where their product was deployed several years ago across multiple agencies, and have since moved to Europe. We were discussing whether emerging government policies around open source, such as [...]
Category: open source in government Tags: open source, stimulus package, UK government, US
by Andrea Di Maio | May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
Andrew Stott, currently CTO and Deputy CIO in the UK Government, has just been appointed Director of Digital Engagement, reporting to the permanent secretary for government communication. In this new role, he will be in charge for dealing with the recommendations from the Power of Information Task Force. This is a brand new position, at [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: open government data, power of information, UK government
