From "more for less" to "good enough for (almost) free"
There is one particular sentence that I have heard countless times over the five or six years: doing more with less. First time I heard it was during the first efficiency review conducted by Sir Peter...
View ArticleProgress Remains Slow on Both Government 2.0 and Cloud
I just finished my briefing tour, which touched Washington DC and five state capitals. I had a lot of great interactions with government CIOs, state secretaries, IT leaders and PR officers. In almost...
View ArticleGrace: A Welcome Trait for New Government CIOs
During my recent briefing tour in the US I had the privilege of meeting once again Vivek Kundra, the US federal CIO whom I have known for a few years now, and the recently appointed CIO of the State of...
View ArticleIs Cloud Computing a Solution in Search of a Problem?
Last Friday I started my briefing tour in beautiful Vienna, where I had a chance to address government IT executives in two separate meetings, both focused on the topic of cloud computing. At the end...
View ArticleDefining Smart(er) Government
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...
View ArticleTwo CIOs Facing Complex Challenges with a Soft and Clever Touch
During my stay in Finland I had a number of interesting meetings, two of which with CIOs having responsibility respectively at the national and local government level. In one case, the CIO is...
View ArticleAre the US Obsessed with Cloud as much as Europe was with Open Source?
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,...
View ArticleHelp Gartner Define Its Government Research Agenda for 2010
As the agenda manager for the government research team in Gartner, I am in the process of gathering input from clients and non clients about the areas we should be researching about in the course of...
View ArticleWhy The IT Industry Could Derail Government 2.0
By now I think many agree that the evolution of e-government (and in particular the electronic delivery of information and services to various stakeholders) will follow a “government 2.0” path. While...
View ArticleNew European IT Agency: A First Step Toward A EU Cloud?
Some tome ago I posted about whether there is room for a “European cloud”, with reference to on-going discussions on the future of government interoperability in the EU. Last week, an apparently...
View ArticleFrom "more for less" to "good enough for (almost) free"
There is one particular sentence that I have heard countless times over the five or six years: doing more with less. First time I heard it was during the first efficiency review conducted by Sir Peter...
View ArticleProgress Remains Slow on Both Government 2.0 and Cloud
I just finished my briefing tour, which touched Washington DC and five state capitals. I had a lot of great interactions with government CIOs, state secretaries, IT leaders and PR officers. In almost...
View ArticleGrace: A Welcome Trait for New Government CIOs
During my recent briefing tour in the US I had the privilege of meeting once again Vivek Kundra, the US federal CIO whom I have known for a few years now, and the recently appointed CIO of the State of...
View ArticleIs Cloud Computing a Solution in Search of a Problem?
Last Friday I started my briefing tour in beautiful Vienna, where I had a chance to address government IT executives in two separate meetings, both focused on the topic of cloud computing. At the end...
View ArticleDefining Smart(er) Government
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...
View ArticleTwo CIOs Facing Complex Challenges with a Soft and Clever Touch
During my stay in Finland I had a number of interesting meetings, two of which with CIOs having responsibility respectively at the national and local government level. In one case, the CIO is...
View ArticleAre the US Obsessed with Cloud as much as Europe was with Open Source?
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,...
View ArticleHelp Gartner Define Its Government Research Agenda for 2010
As the agenda manager for the government research team in Gartner, I am in the process of gathering input from clients and non clients about the areas we should be researching about in the course of...
View ArticleWhy The IT Industry Could Derail Government 2.0
By now I think many agree that the evolution of e-government (and in particular the electronic delivery of information and services to various stakeholders) will follow a “government 2.0” path. While...
View ArticleNew European IT Agency: A First Step Toward A EU Cloud?
Some tome ago I posted about whether there is room for a “European cloud”, with reference to on-going discussions on the future of government interoperability in the EU. Last week, an apparently...
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