SaaS blogger Jeff Kaplan writes (U.S. Schools and Government Promoting SaaS and Cloud Computing) about how:
- the new Obama administration is promoting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing as part of its overhaul of the government and economic stimulus efforts, and
- some US school systems and universities are also making a concerted effort to move to the cloud
As we have previously suggested (see related posts below), the UK government and other agencies and pressure groups should also be playing their part in a similar initiative, not least because of the potential climate change benefits. Otherwise, we run the risk of lagging behind the US in yet another area of construction-related IT provision (see UK architects going green but lagging behind US on BIM).
Related posts
- Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age (04 December 2008)
- UKGBC overlooking 'green ICT' potential? (25 September 2008)
- Greening Government ICT (2) (12 August 2008)
- Greening Government ICT (18 July 2008)
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