Italy’s Digital Strategy: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
On October 4th, after great anticipation and endless debates, the Italian Digital Agenda has been approved (see presentation in Italian here). It is part of a Decree about Growth tackling a number of...
View ArticleWhy Government Should Care Less About Open Data and More About Data
Among the flurry of activities and deja-vu around open data that governments worldwide, in all tiers are pursuing to increase transparency and fuel a data economy, I found something really worth...
View ArticleObama’s Victory Speech: Why Change and Forward is Not Enough for Government IT
Like many people around the world, I listened to the US President’s speech after his victory at the last election. I found one sentence particularly inspiring: “America is not about what can be done...
View ArticleOpen Data Is Not for Sprinters
I read yesterday on Computerworld UK that UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s special envoy on the UN’s post-2015 development goals has said that he is ‘disappointed’ by how much the government’s open...
View ArticleA Year in Review: Top Ten for Smart Government in 2012
For the fourth year in a row, here is my (absolutely personal) top ten in the area of government innovation. Over the last three years the title was “Top Ten for Government 2.0”, but this term is less...
View ArticleCould Governments Run Out of Patience with Open Data?
Yesterday I had yet another client conversation – this time with a mid-size municipality in the north of Europe – on the topic of the economic value generated through open data. The problem we...
View ArticleAlpha.data.gov: From Open Data Provider to Open Data Hub
Those who happen to read my blog know that I am rather cynical about many enthusiastic pronouncements around open data. One of the points I keep banging on is that the most common perspective is that...
View ArticleIs Open Data Just Nice To Have When Times Are Tough?
Earlier today I was being briefed by a major vendor about their public sector offering. This vendor provides – among other things – content management solutions. In passing, I asked whether they plan...
View ArticleThere Is More To The US Open Data Policy Than Meets The Eye
On May 9, after a longer-than-expected preparation, the Open Data Policy announced as part of the US Digital Government Strategy has been issued together with an executive order signed by President...
View ArticleOpen Data Can and Will Shift the Power Balance
The recent case of two students at Yale, who used university data to build a web site that allowed students to plan their schedules while comparing class evaluations and teacher ratings for the past...
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