The Adoption of Cloud Computing for e-Government Initiative in Regional Governments in Developing Countries

Electronic government initiatives continues in looking opportunities to identify the way they manage to provide services to citizen effectively and efficiently. E-Government require a developed Informations and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure in order to establish a coherent system. Most of the developing countries are facing various challenges due to the lack of ICT infrastructure. Cloud computing is an innovative and emerging technology to overcome these challenges. This technology relies mainly on the internet and other approaches such as; virtualisation, grid computing, web services and others. The provision of the services is an on-demand via the common medium of the internet gives this services a new uniqueness. This paper aims to highlight the opportunities to adopt cloud computing in e-Government initiatives in developing countries. Also sheds light on the challenges that might influence the adoption of cloud computing in the e-Government system.