Category Archives: eGovernment

Gartner’s Open Government Maturity Model

Posted on June 30, 2010 by oliver

I see from Andrea Di Maio’s blog that Gartner have published their “Open Government Maturity Model”. A similar piece of work that Gartner did around eGovernment a decade ago was often seen as the gold standard for measuring progress that various … Continue reading →

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Semantics and gov20

Posted on June 30, 2010 by oliver

Lessons of the last two weeks; Open Government != gov20 gov20 != Open Government Open Data != gov20 Open Data != Open Government gov20 != open data Open Government != Open Data eGovernment != Open Data gov20 != eGovernment blah … Continue reading →

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Understanding gov20 adoption, Citizens / Consumers

Posted on June 25, 2010 by oliver

The final post in my series of none scientific reviews of gov20 adoption will focus on citizens and consumers. It is worth asking friends and family what they think gov20 means to them, and how they think some of the … Continue reading →

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Understanding gov20 adoption, Politicians / Civil Servants

Posted on June 23, 2010 by oliver

For the second of my none scientific posts about the adoption of gov20 I thought I would look at the progress that has been made by elected officials and government employees. This is a little harder to take a single … Continue reading →

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Understanding gov20 adoption, Developers / Technologists

Posted on June 22, 2010 by oliver

So, for the first in my series of none scientific posts about the state of gov20 deployment I thought I would pick up the easiest of the three segments that I mentioned yesterday and look at how developers and technologists … Continue reading →

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Understanding gov20 adoption, finding a model

Posted on June 21, 2010 by oliver

The day I started my first technology marketing job my hiring manager presented me with a book about the technology adoption lifecycle. It is a phenomenally useful way of looking at the market adoption of a new product or technology, … Continue reading →

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And you thought you were done with gov20…

Posted on February 2, 2010 by oliver

With several national gov20 plans now published I thought it would be worthwhile jotting down some reminders of the work that is still ahead if these plans are to be realized. Many of the items listed below represent opportunity for … Continue reading →

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RDF and Open Government Data

Posted on January 18, 2010 by oliver

More often than not the topic of RDF (W3C’s Resource Description Framework) comes up soon after you get into any conversation about open government data.  It comes up as the discussion strays into ways of making published datasets more valuable … Continue reading →

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The City of Edmonton and OGDI

Posted on January 15, 2010 by oliver

I’ve been trying to avoid “blogging the news” recently but this one was hard to pass up. The Canadian City of Edmonton was in the news for a couple of unrelated reasons this morning, first of all as the Olympic … Continue reading →

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Lost Conversations, Lost Decisions, Lost History…

Posted on November 11, 2009 by oliver

Originally posted on “TalkStandards”, 11th November 2009 There is no debate that standards have always played an important role in the design and delivery of eGovernment systems, since the mid-1990s we have been seeing standards play critical roles in data … Continue reading →

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