by Andrea Di Maio | December 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
I just read a long list of kudos to the Open Government Directive by people I respect and admire, all praising the almost historical dimension of this document and all convince that it will trigger sustainable change in how governments and citizen will relate to each other. My post on the directive has been of [...]
Category: open government data Tags: Aneesh Chopra, government 2.0, US, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | September 30, 2009 | 4 Comments
As some of you might know, Gartner is holding its annual Symposium and IT EXPO in Orlando, FL between October 18 and 22, 2009. This year we have a lot of sessions on government IT, covering hot topics such as Web 2.0, Social Media and Cloud Computing. But the highlight of the event will be [...]
Category: cloud web 2.0 in government Tags: Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | September 16, 2009 | 8 Comments
Yesterday, in a speech given at the NASA Ames Research Center (watch it on YouTube), the US federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced the launch of Apps.gov, the GSA storefront to give federal agencies access to cloud services. This has been in the making for a while and the launch was originally scheduled during the Gov [...]
Category: cloud Tags: Apps.gov, GSA, NASA, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
I have been willing to post about this since when I knew, but wanted to wait for the official news. My (now former) colleague and friend Dave McClure, who has been managing and research VP in the Gartner government research team, is starting his new job at the General Services Administration, as Associate Administrator for [...]
Category: e-government Tags: Aneesh Chopra, GSA, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | August 14, 2009 | 10 Comments
Over the last two days, the blogosphere has witnessed an interesting debate about whether Vivek Kundra’s resume is entirely accurate and sufficient for his current role as U.S. Federal CIO. It all started with a blog post by John Dvorak, where he casted doubts about Vivek’s academic achievements and his experience outside the public sector, [...]
Category: e-government Tags: Aneesh Chopra, Federal CIO, Federal CTO, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | July 29, 2009 | 4 Comments
Since when I started following what the US federal administration is doing around cloud computing (see here), I have been wondering whether there was an intention to come up with something like a government-run cloud infrastructure, which sounds like the more modern version of a centralized government infrastructure. The first official move from the federal [...]
Category: cloud Tags: GSA, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | July 16, 2009 | 7 Comments
Yesterday I had a great conversation with a European client who is tasked with identifying a roadmap for government departments across his jurisdiction to collectively benefit from cloud services. The starting point for him – like for a number of other clients I have been talking to lately – is (1) a set of ongoing [...]
Category: cloud Tags: GSA, private cloud, Vivek, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | June 29, 2009 | 3 Comments
A former colleague of mine, Paolo Magrassi, used to say this when challenging benchmarking reports or statistics or quantitative analysis. His words came to mind after I read Casey Coleman’s latest post on her blog. I like her blog as she provides an authoritative, yet informal view of events that affect the federal government. In [...]
Category: open government data Tags: government 2.0, GSA, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | June 2, 2009 | Comments Off
According to what reported by Government Computing News, during his address at the American Council of Technology and Industry Advisory Council’s Management of Change Conference, Vivek Kundra – the US Federal CIO – said that government’s technology initiatives “attempted to break down the vertical technology silos that evolved across government but ultimately resulted in horizontal, [...]
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Category: web 2.0 in government Tags: open government data, Vivek Kundra
by Andrea Di Maio | May 12, 2009 | 6 Comments
A White House document published yesterday with the FY 2010 budget request touches on cloud computing as a way to improve innovation, efficiency and effectiveness in federal IT. The document suggests that A number of pilot projects will be implemented to offer an opportunity to utilize more fully and broadly departmental and agency architectures to [...]
Category: cloud Tags: cloud computing, GSA, Obama, Vivek Kundra
