by Andrea Di Maio | December 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
With an agreement between Democrats and Republicans to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff not yet in sight despite a fast-approaching deadline, it is fair to assume that government CIOs and IT leaders in the US federal government will have to deal with cost reductions as a key priority. The long tail of the fiscal cliff, [...]
Category: cloud social networks in government Tags: cost cutting, US
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 | June 18, 2012 | 7 Comments
I do live in Italy and I do work for a US company, spending most of my professional time with US colleagues and clients. They are very different countries, with very different histories, attitudes, weight on the international scene, entrepreneurship, levels of corruption and tax evasion, efficiency of machinery of government, and so forth. Yet, [...]
Category: e-government web 2.0 in government Tags: digital society, GSA, Italy, US
by Andrea Di Maio | January 13, 2011 | 11 Comments
The other day I posted about Beth Noveck’s departure as deputy CTO and responsible for Open Government activities in the US federal government and got considerable pushback from readers who both disliked the title of my post and disagreed about my position that open government is not doing great. Let me clarify why I think [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open government, US
by Andrea Di Maio | October 15, 2010 | 6 Comments
A few days ago the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at the General Services Administration finally launched apps.gov NOW (in beta since August) a set of tools that federal employees can use to support their open government plans and engage citizens. The toolkit includes a blogging tool, two wiki tools, a challenge tool [...]
Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: government 2.0, GSA, open government, US
by Andrea Di Maio | October 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
In a widely publicized report (see also press release), the Technology CEO Council (the US IT industry’s public policy advocacy organization) proposed seven initiatives that would help the US federal government to save over 1 trillion dollars between today and 2020. The Council is formed by the top executives of IBM, Dell, Intel, EMC, Motorola, [...]
Category: public value of IT Tags: cost cutting, symposium, US
by Andrea Di Maio | July 20, 2010 | 3 Comments
As part of my job I have entered the US countless times, always using the visa waiver program and with my proper Electronic System for Travel Authorization.(ESTA). Every time I have been welcomed warmly and professionally by Custom and Border Protection officers: there is always a smile, a sense of respect and willingness to help, [...]
Category: e-government Tags: open government, US
by Andrea Di Maio | June 23, 2010 | 6 Comments
Over the last month or so there have been a couple of worthwhile events about the US Federal Government’s cloud computing activities. The first one has been the publication of an interesting report, authored by the federal CIO Vivek Kundra, on the State of Public Sector Cloud Computing. This is a compendium of what the [...]
Category: cloud open source in government Tags: cloud computing, open standards, US, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | February 1, 2010 | 5 Comments
I have just published a research note with this title for Gartner clients (login required) and I am toying with the idea of arranging a webinar open to a broader audience to have a conversation about this topic. Here are a few excerpts from the document: The Open Government Directive requires all U.S. agencies to [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open government directive, US
by Andrea Di Maio | January 23, 2010 | 6 Comments
January 22, 2010 was the first deadline for US federal agencies to comply with the Open Government Directive issued on December 9, 2009. In particular agencies were requested to identify and publish online in an open format at least three high-value datasets. These sets must be registered for Data.gov and should not be previously available [...]
Category: open government data Tags: open government directive, US
