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OP - E DPublished: Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Cloud computing and cloud economy
M S Siddiqui
BANGLADESH continues to solely focus on cheap labour. Apart from
agriculture, the economy is based
on remittance from expatriates and export of garments; both are
largely dependent on cheap labour. The
current policy of Digital Bangladesh is an attempt to improve
connectivity, access to information and
literacy.
Bangladesh can make a real difference by modifying the Digital
Bangladesh plan for real economic
development with updated technologies rather relying heavily on
cheap labour. A good idea is using cloud
computing for cloud economy. Many nations around the world are
taking advantage of cloud computing.
It refers to both the applications delivered as services over
the Internet and the hardware and systems
software in the data centers that provide those services. Cloud
computing is commoditization and
globalization of computing resources and electronic
services.
Cloud provision will enable small enterprises to outsource some
of IT skills that they would otherwise
have to provide internally. Companies can benefit from greater
storage and computing capacity as well as
the expertise of cloud service providers in areas such as IT
management and security.
Bangladesh is now using internet service provided by some local
internet service providers. These service
providers do not have commitment or agreement with users for
security and privacy of information.
Cloud service providers ensure security and privacy of data.
Gmail, Yahoo etc are simple example of cloud
computing services. The service can also be used for
web-commerce. Some mobile phone with android
software can also provide clouding services.
Cloud computing also provides services like computation,
software, data access, and storage services that
do not require end-user knowledge of the physical location and
configuration of the system that delivers
the services. The cloud service has three categories
infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a
service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). The cloud
service providers processing, storage, networks
and other fundamental computing resources allow the cloud
customers to deploy and run software. They
provide infrastructure and customers can use those only with a
computer with connectivity network. This
facilitates use of advanced and update technology with minimum
investment and with minimum
knowledge about the system. Users dont need software and
hardware service personnel in own office or
contract to maintain the infrastructure and software. Cloud
computing shifts these costs to remote data
centers that benefit from significant economies of scale and
scope.
UNCTAD in its The Information Economy Report 2013 has spelled
out a concept of cloud economy
ecosystem. This ecosystem refers to complex sets of relationship
between technology and business,
government and innovation, production and consumption. It
creates a wider information economy.
A recent study shows that cloud technology will develop over the
next two decades with major
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implications for markets, economies and societies. By 2025, most
IT and web applications and services
could be cloud delivered or cloud enabled.
Bangladesh cannot afford to stay out of global communication
system as cloud computing is not only
about information technology but also about overall economic
growth. Bangladesh is already exporting
software services. Cloud computing will increase this potential
exponentially.
Most of the cloud service providers are in the West particularly
in the US. There is not a single cloud
provider in developing countries. Among the Asian countries,
Japan and Singapore have their own
companies. Bangladesh can dream of developing their own cloud
companies in future. Japan has
developed a nation-wide Kasumigaseki Cloud that is being
developed to enable various ministries to
collaborate and at the local level, the Jichitai Cloud is being
built to provide interoperability among local
governments.
Although there is no harmonized international privacy framework
regulating data transfers across
borders, the implementation of strong domestic privacy regimes
could benefit developing countries.
About 99 countries of the world have data-privacy laws till
2013. Out of those Mexico has most updated
cloud-specific provision for data protection. Bangladesh may
consider new law or update the existing ICT
act to make data secure as we are in service business of data
processing and computing for the customersin developed countries.
The key reform areas include privacy, data protection, information
security and
cyber crime.
We need policy and legal reform to avail the technology for
improvement of export oriented service
sectors like data processing, software etc through a new idea of
cloud computing ecosystem. We should
upgrade our Digital Bangladesh policy incorporating cloud
computing for a cloud economy.
The wri ter i s Legal Economist and pursuing PhD in Open Uni
versity, Malaysia.
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