Cloud Computing & E-Government: Myth or Reality? CLOUD COMPUTING & E-GOVERNMENT: MYTH OR REALITY?

The rapid development of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and its adoption in public administration has become a strategic tool in governmental reforms. Part of this reform focuses on the development of integrated IT infrastructures. In order to support E-Government integration efforts, considerable computer power and storage capacity is required. Due the complexity of governments ’ processes and its needs for massive data record and monitoring, a secure and powerful infrastructure is essential. In recent years, advanced technologies have been evolved to address integration problems. Despite, that there is plethora of studies on Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) there is limited literature on (a) the application of SOA in an Electronic Government (eGov) environment, (b) Cloud computing and (c) the use of Cloud computing in public domain. This paper is a research in progress that aims to review the normative literature, identify research issues and propose research questions