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Furthermore, Cloud software and hardware can be of benefit to educational establishments to continue to take advantage of new developments in IT technologies at affordable costs. This in turn assists governments pursing environmentally friendly policies, decreasing pollution and effective waste management. The UK‘ s National Computer Center( NCC) estimates that small to medium enterprises and educational establishments can decrease the total cost of ownership of technology using hosted solution. This result was obtained by the cloud vender“ Gooroo” in a survey which deduced that UK SMEs will adopt cloud computing in an effort to decrease the costs during the economic recession. The majority of respondents( 65 %) said that a reduction in overall IT costs was the key driving force behind their embracing of cloud computing. However, in regards to the KRI situation, the interview carried out with the manager of the ICT Centre at the ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research( MOHE) mentioned that the entire universities in the region are not connected to each other and have the lack of ICT infrastructure. On thew other hand, there are numerous educational establishments that are adopting cloud computing to facilitate the learning process and, hence influence economic growth. Therefore, the government authorities in the region can learn lessons from implemented projects of cloud computing such as the University of Westminister in the UK, and the Washington State University’ s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science( Sultan, 2010). Lastly, three out of four participants in the interview stated that the adoption of cloud computing in e‐Government would be a significant benefit of government in facilitating the provision of services to citizen effectively and efficiently.
5. Conclusion
Many countries across the globe have tried to adopt technology as a solution to provide services to its citizen effectively and efficiently. However, some of them have already started and obtained a substantial benefit from it. However, others are still struggling with adopting technology properly such as KRI, this is due to the lack of strategic plan, ICT infrastructure, legal framework, IT skills and others. In this paper, the researcher believes that the cloud computing can play a significant role in the way of supporting service provision to the citizen. This paper also shaded light on the possibility of adopting cloud computing in e‐Government.
The research findings also revealed that cloud computing can help to implement e‐Government systems effectively and would facilitate in the service provision. Particularly essential as the KRI lacks a proper ICT infrastructure. Furthermore, this paper also assists policy makers in government to offer a clear vision for cloud computing in e‐Government. Further research is required for the cloud computing framework of implementation, which should be the subject of future research. Ultimately, any conclusions could be useful to other researchers in the developing world who are seeking to explore the potential of similar initiatives.
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