Our Canadian Cloud initiative is intended to help Canada seize the global
Cloud computing industry opportunity to revitalize their Digital Economy
strategy.
It’s an ‘X Factor’ type program to incubate new ideas for this hot
sector, like VM Aware, a $ billion firm in the making recently founded in
Newfoundland.
We have a Linkedin group for this, you can join in too.
G-Cloud Innovation
Cloud computing is such a powerful investment area for government because not
only can it modernize their IT and therefore enhance their business processes
and reduce their own operating costs, but this same platform can also boost
technology-enabled public innovation across a broader national capacity.
This can be aligned to government programs to create more of an ‘Innovation
Nation’ program, such as the UK program of the same name. This encompasses
aspects such as ICT skills and pr... (more)
Interesting discussion happening on the CCIF Mailing list today. John Suffolk
(UK Government CIO) responded to the recent discussion of the UK governments
plans to create country wide cloud Infrastructure (aka G-Cloud).
Suffolk had this to say:
Our approach to G-Cloud stems from the work we have been doing over the past
3 years: Focus on getting desktop designs standardized; rationalize the
morass of telecommunications infrastructures into a "network of network"
under the Public Sector Network Programme; rationalize the datacenteres;
drive through the open source, open standards ... (more)
While the ‘Cloud first’ policy of the US Government to stimulate the
migration to new Cloud computing services is the $80billion gorilla in the
industry, the UK’s ‘G-Cloud’ initiative is similarly large, and indeed
more comprehensive in its vision for the role the technology will play in
transforming government.
Within 5-10 years the program will establish the G-Cloud as the predominant
model for ICT delivery in the public sector, involving a wholesale shift to
utility services being the norm.
Transform Maturity Model
As such it can act as the definitive reference maturity mod... (more)
As you'll see the last blog posted to our iFOSSF site was published almost
two years ago. We've been busy in other areas so the organization has been on
hold, but now we're ramping it up again.
You'll also see it was about the UK Cabinet Office Open Source strategy, a
program they intended to drive major efficiencies not only through the use of
open software but more so in terms of the sharing and reuse of best practices
this enables. This has since led into their 'G-Cloud' initiative, a strategy
to adopt Cloud computing to accelerate uptake of these apps, via an 'ASG' -
An Appl... (more)
Interesting developments from our friends in the UK today. The British
government's newly appointed chief information officer John Suffolk has been
be given new powers to sign-off all major IT projects with a particular focus
placed on the creation of country wide Cloud Computing infrastructure.
Details of the new strategy were released as part of a Digital Britain report
published earlier, which includes the development of “G-cloud” – a
government-wide cloud computing network.
The report highlights the development of a virtual Public Service Network
(PSN) with “common design, st... (more)
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