India's e-government is expected to be the first to use cloud technology

A few days ago, foreign reports said India may soon become the world's first to use cloud-based technology to provide e-government services to the public. The Indian government is currently consulting with India's most influential software industry organization, Nasscom, on how to use this emerging technology to launch e-government services.　　Cloud computing technology is widely used by enterprises for its ability to deal with large volumes of transactions. The advantage of using this technology is that IT infrastructure does not need to be built by the government. In addition, as the technology has the capacity to deal with a large number of transactions, the public is expected to reduce congestion time. For example, a simple job like booking a train ticket online would be rather slow in the current rush hour and would not happen in the future. The government's introduction of cloud-based e-government and civic Services will open a new market for foreign companies such as IBM, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, and Indian companies such as TCS, Infosys and Wipro. "E-government collaboration through cloud technology will cover 90% of the Citizens ' service, and only 10% of the services can be carried out in full," Rchandrashekhar, Deputy Minister for Information Technology Affairs of India's Ministry of Information Technology and communications, said in an interview with the Economic Times of India. In addition, it will enable the project to operate online more quickly. "The industry welcomes the government's decision," he said. NIIT is interested in the company, which is working with Hitachi, Japan, to launch cloud services. Wipro has also introduced private cloud services to its clients. Nasscom also expressed appreciation for the Government's decision. An official at Wipro said the company offers similar services to corporate clients and is interested in working with the government. Rodneynelsestuen, senior research director at TowerGroup, a us-based company, says India is in a unique environment for leveraging cloud computing. "The U.S. Chief Information officer, Vivekkundra, has scheduled tasks to eliminate information duplication and optimize it costs through cloud technology," he said. The Indian government's decision is just the right time because there is no system left in India. "It is reported that many of the world's popular online applications have been using cloud computing technology." For example, Twitter.com, skype.com, Facebook, Google, and Yahoo maps all use cloud computing.　　Now the combination of cloud technology and e-government will improve people's lives. (Qian Min people posts and telecommunications)