Sunday, 8 November 2015

Cloud computing for e-governance

The Internet has changed our lives in terms of the way we work, learn and interact. These changes are also influencing the very organization of the government, its relationship with its citizens, institutions and businesses and cooperation with other governments. Increased access to technology brings expectations and demands on government from its citizens and organizations. At the same time, we can notice that the governments are also proactive and are planning new ways of interacting, improving services, optimizing processes and revitalizing democracy by increasing the IT spend. It aims to deliver more interactive services to citizens and businesses through e-governance.

For this, cloud computing may lead to significant cost savings. It entails use of computing hardware and software infrastructure and apps that are remotely hosted. However, governments have been slower in realizing the potential benefits of IT and the cloud to provide its services to the citizens. Cloud computing provides a new service consumption and delivery model inspired by consumer internet services.

Cloud based e-governance

E-governance with cloud computing offers integration management with automated problem resolution, manages security end-to-end, and helps budget based on actual usage of data. At a global level, cloud architectures can benefit government to reduce duplicate efforts and increase utilization of resources. This helps the government going green, reducing pollution and effective waste management.

Enterprises and SMBs are already reaping the benefits of cloud by using the “pay-as-you-use” service model, its massive scalability and readily availability. Since government requires a massive infrastructure it is important for government to use cloud computing on long-term basis.

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