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The Best Government Social Media Guidelines So Far Come from New Zealand

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by Andrea Di Maio |  December 1, 2011 I just browsed through two documents that were published by the New Zealand government: Social Media in Government: High Level Guidance, targeted to organizations that “are trying to decide if they should use social media in a communications, community engagement, or a policy consultation context”; and Social Media in [...]

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Are Governments Self-Inflicting Cloud Computing?

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by Andrea Di Maio |  November 9, 2011 While at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, I had a stream of meetings with government clients from several European countries who are contemplating the development of private clouds. In some cases, these clouds are seen as the end result of a consolidation process resulting from a decision [...]

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From “Cloud First” to “Future First”: New Motto, Same Issues

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by Andrea Di Maio |  November 2, 2011 A few days after I met him in DC, the US Federal CIO Steven Van Roekel addressed an audience of technology companies in Palo Alto, summarizing the main directions of his work for the months to come. He stressed efforts in four main areas: data center consolidation [...]

GETTING OUT: Why we need to get out of the Facebook page comfort zone

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Posted: October 28, 2011 | Author: Dan Slee Like it or not the public sector can’t say it’s truly got social media until it’s got Facebook right. Right now it hasn’t. All too often it’s a tumbleweed corporate page shovelling out press releases and a handful of brave people following. Often it’s nothing at all. [...]

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The Myth of Government Innovation

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by Andrea Di Maio |  October 24, 2011 This morning I sat in a panel on technology innovation in the context of the ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference, held in Williamsburg, Virginia. The panel, which was moderated by Rob Atkinson (President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation), featured Lisa Schlosser (Deputy CIO at OMB), Peter [...]

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Highlights from Government at Gartner Symposium: New and Old Realities

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by Andrea Di Maio |  October 20, 2011 As the end of the largest Gartner Symposium ever is approaching, I thought I would like to share some of the take aways from interacting with hundreds of government clients over the last four and a half days: Smart Government Serious budgetary concerns are percolating through US [...]

How Norfolk CC used Twitter to show a human face

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Courtesy – The Dan Slee Blog. Norfolk County Council and its partners did a rather innovative thing using Twitter recently. They told the story of five different public servants. It put a human face on what they do. I rather liked the idea. And I really liked the way they made use of Storify and [...]

Government IT Departments Can Either Embrace Choice or Perish

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by Andrea Di Maio | October 5, 2011 Through my analyst coverage of social media, cloud computing and – more recently – smart government, I am coming across a consistent number of cases where government IT departments are struggling to establish, affirm or defend their relevance to the rest of the business. This is not [...]

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The Frustration of an Open Government Leader

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by Andrea Di Maio |  October 3, 2011 A few days ago I had the chance to meet one of those individuals who have really embraced and driven openness in the government organization where he is responsible for IT. I was fascinated by hearing the story of how he was an agent of change, turned [...]

Will We Exploit Data or Will Data Exploit Us?

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by Andrea Di Maio |  September 19, 2011 The interest on big data and open data is understandably growing all over the world. The combination of several technology innovations, in areas like social media, cloud computing, analytics, offer scenarios that we could hardly imagine in the past. And the trend toward greater transparency and openness [...]