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We believe it is time for governments to elevate their policy thinking about cloud services to confront their ICT strategy conundrum. They must address increasing fiscal constraints and disappointment with existing approaches to boosting ICT productivity with an approach that enables cross-agency sharing.

Cloud services policies are being developed and iterated in all jurisdictions. Having reviewed a number of draft policies in recent months, we believe policy-makers need to work harder to create a level playing field for cloud services adoption, mindful of the potential for a type I procurement error or a type II procurement error.

Anyone who has ever dealt in real estate—either buying a house, renting, or just living with someone in the industry—has heard the mantra "location, location, location." As it turns out, location matters in the cloud, too. In particular, if you work for a regional or global company, you’ll find that certain governments, regional political entities (eg. the EU), and industries impose restrictions on where specific types of data can physically reside.

Cloud delivery and procurement is still a central plank in global public sector procurement. The G-Cloud Framework has been running for the best part of a year, having launched in April 2012, so now is a good time to revisit the UK government’s flagship procurement initiative, CloudStore.

How does the public sector’s inability to accept that the private sector has to make a profit scupper idea of "strategic partnerships" and their flawed reality?

The UK government's CloudStore launched in February. How has it fared in the months since?

Although the EU does a good job describing in non technical terms what cloud is and why Europe needs it, it kind of stops there.

Open Data is data that can be freely used, reused and distributed by anyone - subject only, at the most, to the requirement for attributes and sharelikes.