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Governments and Cloud Computing: Roles, Approaches, and Policy Considerations

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  • Gasser, Urs

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Governments from Bogota to Beijing are engaging with emerging cloud computing technologies and its industry in a variety of overlapping contexts.  Based on a review of a representative number of advanced cloud computing strategies developed by governments from around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, the European Union, and Japan, we observed that these governments – mostly implicitly – have taken on several different “roles” with respect to their approaches to cloud computing.  In particular, we have identified six distinguishable but overlapping roles assumed by governments: users, regulators, coordinators, promoters, researchers, and service providers.  In this paper, we describe and discuss each of these roles in detail using examples from our review of cloud strategies, and share high-level observations about the roles as well as the contexts in which they arise.  The paper concludes with a set of considerations for policymakers to take into account when developing approaches to the rapidly evolving cloud computing technologies and industry.

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  • Gasser, Urs, 2013. "Governments and Cloud Computing: Roles, Approaches, and Policy Considerations," Papers 626, World Trade Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:wti:papers:626
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