While governments around the world start asking themselves about the future of their channel strategies vis-à-vis changing online behaviors and the growth of social networks, some of them hold steady to the strategy of further developing their existing portals. One of the latest cases is Australia (see www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23777194-16123,00.html), but more will follow suit.
I have been meeting clients in several countries during the past two months, and the discussions about the future of citizen-centric services and e-government in general have been remarkably similar. Whether in Australia or Oman, Singapore or Quebec, Belgium or Ohio, the role and value of portals, the need to better leverage the goldmine of public information that governments sit on, and the const ...
With money tight and time tighter, Gartner is pleased to introduce a new one-day, highly efficient agenda that addresses critical needs for government IT executives: Gartner InFocus Day: Government, June 4 in Washington, DC, at the Gaylord National Resort.
Increasingly, government CIOs are being asked to respond to and drive changes at the enterprise level. The new IT agenda is focuse ...
In the last two weeks, headlines about two large and hugely important government IT-intensive projects have raised concerns about significant cost overruns, missed deadlines and the potential for scaled-back functionality that formed the basis for the spending decisions. One is the IT modernization work being done to support the 2010 U.S. Census. A $600 million contract to deploy more than 500,000 ...
We have just published an entire spotlight on government and Web 2.0. Through our research positions throughout the year, we have constantly tried to shift our clients' perception of Web 2.0 from its most visible (and somewhat hyped) social and participative dimension to its business impact, in terms of mashups and composite applications.
We have been trying to collapse the multidimen ...