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The Information Economy Report 2013: the Cloud Economy and Developing Countries

Published date 2013-01-01
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Cloud computing is a recent manifestation of this evolving ICT landscape. Given its potential, it is becoming increasingly important for Governments and enterprises. In simple terms, cloud computing enables users, through the Internet or other digital networks, to access a scalable and elastic pool of data storage and computing resources...Against this background, the Information Economy Report 2013 provides an objective analysis of the possible implications for developing countries of the evolving cloud economy.