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Denial of Cloud Computing for Many Countries

As many  countries grapple with cybersecurity laws they are making stringent laws which will prove to be a barrier to cloud computing.
Also the largest provider of cloud services is the USA which plans to make foreign Internet access into that country more stringent given the number of recent cyber attacks. The US government may classify Major cyber attacks as war .see the link below
http://governancenow.com/gov-next/egov/us-may-classify-major-cyber-attacks-acts-war.
These developments do not harbor well for many countries who would benefit from cloud computing.
The cost of monitoring and regulating traffic on the Internet highways will be a challenge in the future given the exponential growth of devices powered by wireless services.
Add to this stringent laws that may be passed by countries which  prevent use of social networking sites like facebook and twitter or for that matter google.


Well there will be country specific and regional clouds which will still be launched, but these will be islands in a setting sun and do not augur well for a global cloud computing framework.
USA will leverage on the cloud, so would Europe which is building its own European Cloud,  Australia and New Zealand and also Japan will be forced to build their clouds or share the cloud infrastructure with USA or Europe. We could even have continent specific clouds based on political alignments like the North American Cloud shared by USA and Canada. The European Cloud is already a reality.
The  developing  countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China may also build their own clouds given their potential for computing driven  economics.
This means the many countries in the Rest of the World who can benefit the most from the cloud computing paradigm  may not be able to derive the benefits of the Cloud for social and economic development.
How this will pan out in the future is difficult to pen now, but one outcome is clear there will be a denial of Cloud Computing for Many Countries" especially those who do not have the skills or money to invest in the required technology for cloud computing.
Stringent patrolling of the Internet may not be the answer, so it is time for us to deliberate how the networks of the world will be shared towards the end of the decade.
Remember the countries which had the best ships still had to control the sea routes for economic dominance less then an 100 years ago. Unfortunately the same may not hold true for the Internet  and cloud computing.






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