Gov2.0 – Better Governance using the cloud @reduced costs
Being at the technology forefront we at Imaginea felt our superior cloud engineering capabilities can help us be the answer provider for many a challenge that gov2.0 initiatives face. I happened to read this paper : http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2010/0407_cloud_computing_west.aspx and felt interested to see some of these statistics.
- The city of Los Angeles moved the e-mail service for its 30,000 employees from Novell’s Groupwise to Google’s cloud servers. It spent 23.6 percent less than the $22,996,242 it would have spent on GroupWise during the same period.
- The city of Miami shifted its service hosting to Microsoft Windows Azure platform and saved 75 percent in the first year between hardware, software, and staff efficiencies.
- Budget Information for the U.S. State Department’s Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (NDF) uses a SalesForce.com application for $1,426,691. This application costs one-fourth of the budget it would have required to build the application in-house.
These statistics also made me think what can the benefits be to a country of 1 Billion that i represent. Representing a country of 1 Billion i was really motivated to see what can Cloud do to help us leap forward. Answer was Gov2.0. A lot of interesting work is happening around.
Public utility services, massive data intensive programs and large scale delivery capabilities are some of the most challenging aspects that any government faces when it wants to caters to millions of people. Technology consumption, right framework creation and adoption have always been a issue either at strategy level or execution level. However modern day governments can take a CIO centric approach these days to cater to public demands using technologies such as Cloud computing.
If rightly adopted, implemented and rolled out the result could be a TAPE that i dare to call which will constitute and assure Transparency, Accountability, Efficiency and Productivity (TAPE) Gov2.0 is all about better governance @reduced costs and increased efficiency.
In this blog i will try to touch base challenges that typical e-governance ecosystem face and also different areas of a typical IT driven e-governance model which can take advantage of Cloud services as a channel of delivery.
Challenges
- Data Scaling
- Auditing and Logging
- Rolling out New Instances, Replication, Migration
- Disaster Recovery
- Performance and Scalability
- Reporting and Intelligence for Governance
- Enforcing and Managing Policies Centrally
- Systems & Legacy Application Integration
- Obsolete Technologies and Migration
- Support for ‘Go-Green’ Initiatives
Why cloud for e-governance:
- The Cloud provides a solid foundation for the introduction of robust, scalable, and easily available E-Governance applications
- The Cloud provides faster, cheaper and seamless E-Governance services, accelerating the adoption and use of IT for e-services
- Applying Cloud architectures on current data centers would dramatically improve resource utilization and reduce total operational costs
- Monitoring data centers for traffic and resource utilization is crucial for adoption of Cloud Computing architectures for E-Governance
- SLAs to monitor e-service availability and provision are key
- E-governance app creators should consider people, process and technology and come up with comprehensive processes, and standards to be followed when managing the Cloud for E-Governance infrastructure
- Properly applied Cloud architectures in E-Governance applications can transform the nation into an Information Society
Simply put gov2.0 initiatives if well executed can solve many a problem described above. UUID project that the Indian govt is adopting is a classic example of how different technology peices can be put together to offer a completely hassle free administration.
The Imaginea Edge for Gov2.0
However ability to design, architect, develop and implement larger cloud based frameworks that can add value to life is certainly a dream come true for any technology services provider. Best of the minds need to be in one place to pull all the strings to get it going. We at Imaginea have been pioneers in adoption, usage and implementation of cloud computing for years now.
Please check our detailed white paper on Cloud and e-governance (http://imaginea.com/docs/Whitepaper-Cloud-egovernance.pdf). Visit our cloud engineering services and capabilities at www.imaginea.com/ cloud to take advantage of our superior engineering skills.
ideas to life is what we envision. If you are looking to make a difference to the world, join us in leveraging what can be done with, over and using the Cloud. We would be more than glad to help, understand your challenge, partner and help you move forward!
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