If I was Viviane Reding...
reboot11 #wikicrats June2009
david.osimo@gmail.com
osimod
egov20.wordpress.com

My bio-tags
• Milan/Brussels 1993-1999: consultant , EU funding ,
nonprofit sector
• Bologna 2000-2005: regional government, ICT
policy , benchmarking
• Sevilla 2005-2008: e-government , research,
web2.0, European Commission
• Brussels 2008-present: policy hacker, web2.0 , ICT
policy, Tech4i2

Urgent EU stuff
• bring back exciting people into EU projects
• change the funding to eliminate money-
grabbers
• crowdsource examination of funding
applications
• make EU policies up to wikipedia standards

Urgent EU stuff/2
• choose: focus on excellence and critical
mass
• accept failure as necessary part
• expose to positive serendipity: art funding
model applied to ICT research?

A plug
• 2009 a key year
• This is our EU e-government policy - let’s
make it better
• http://eups20.wordpress.com