Making a Smart Government: Lessons from Government Cloud Development

摘要

The governments around the world have gradually adopting cloud computing as the new way of public services provision. The primary research question is how the national cloud computing strategy leads to make a smart government. By using the ethnographic research method, this study will discuss the evolution process of government clouds (G-Clouds) development and the cloud strategy shift in Taiwan. The findings can provide lessons learned from adopting cloud computing in public sector, which will shed light for future researches on cultivating a smarter government.