{"id":10857,"date":"2014-05-30T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/30\/how-should-governments-go-cloud-first\/"},"modified":"2014-05-30T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:27:54","slug":"how-should-governments-go-cloud-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-should-governments-go-cloud-first\/","title":{"rendered":"How should governments go cloud first?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Chief Analyst, Global Public Sector<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three Australian state governments have recently released updated ICT strategies that include cloud-first policy positions. However, each state has taken a different approach to driving cloud services adoption. This raises interesting questions about the impact of cloud services on the logic of whole-of-government ICT strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Our view is that central agencies should focus on leadership and enablement. They should be mindful of the risk that too much top-down strategy too early on will kill the golden goose of decentralized cloudy innovation that is created when agencies are simply empowered to buy services that already work.<\/p>\n<h3>NSW government agencies are already evaluating cloud-based services when undertaking ICT procurements<\/h3>\n<p>The New South Wales (NSW) state government&rsquo;s ICT Strategy was published in 2012 with an implementation update released recently. The 2012 policy statement on cloud services remains unchanged:<\/p>\n<p>NSW Government agencies will evaluate cloud-based &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Chief Analyst, Global Public Sector<br \/>\nThree Australian state governments have recently released updated ICT strategies that include cloud-first policy positions. However, each state has taken a different approach to driving cloud ser&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}