How Cloud Can Improve City Government
March 10, 2015
Grazed from FutureGov. Author: Editorial Staff.
Civil servants don’t like sharing their data. In the name of accountability, departments will happily shield their precious data from the eyes of other departments, let alone citizens. It takes an extreme act of political will, or a crisis, to drive transformation. This may explain the relatively slow uptake of cloud computing technology by Asia Pacific’s city governments.
“A lot of the opposition to the cloud comes from city officials not wanting to share their data,” says Vijay Jagannathan, Secretary General of CityNet, a network of over 130 cities and organisations focused on sustainable urban development in Asia Pacific. “In developing countries you find that a lot of power comes by not sharing. And it can be hard politically to force departments to share.”…
Jagannathan was speaking following the launch of a joint study by CityNet and Microsoft Asia Pacific at the end of February – ‘City Cloud: Cloud Adoption for Asia’s Cities’. The survey showed that only 22.2 per cent of Asian cities have adopted cloud computing to a moderate or extensive degree. However, Asia cities expect rapidly increase their use of cloud tools over the next three years, reaching 46.9 per cent…
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