Wednesday, May 26, 2010

New Opportunities and Responsibilities in Cloud. Microsoft #g2e #gov20 #cloud

Brad Smith, SVP Microsoft
  • World racing to the cloud
  • New power for info - 311 - e.g., getting pothole fixed.  Can report and see progress
  • Took them 8 days from conception to deployment.  From platform people know and understand.
  • NASA - JPL - Arizona state + Windows Azure - can look at Mars pictures and link to geolocation
  • Challenges:
  • Issues of privacy - cloud at Microsoft or Google.  Privacy reshaped.  Security too.  
  • Data center can provide more data security.  But attract people who want to get in when you set up Fort Knox
  • Challenges for national sovereignty - Italian using Irish cloud run by US company going through France.  No answers for this yet.
  • New Responsibilities:
  • Innovation - keep innovating to keep protecting privacy (e.g., in private on IE 8)
  • New Leadership in Gov: Laws need to be modernized.  Protection of privacy - 84 and 86 for Privacy and electronic security.  Need updating
  • New Collaboration - need govs to work together to make progress and address challenges need...
  • New Conversation:
  • Recognize the way it can benefit government, citizens, citizen groups.

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