At FutureGov Forum Vietnam 2012, held last week in Hanoi, senior government IT decision makers shared their different perspectives about the government cloud, and how ready Vietnam was for such centralised infrastrucutre.
Vu Duy Loi, Director of the Information Technology Centre under the Party Central Committee said that it is too soon to apply government cloud in Vietnam, emphasising that it is necessary to re-organise the technical infrastructure first.
“Even central agencies have been trying to build private infrastructure, even though the common infrastructure has existed. It’s necessary to make sure that applications are used on a common infrastructure system,” he said.
Disagreeing with Loi, Phung Bao Thach, Director of the Information Technology Centre under the Ministry of Science and Technology, stressed that it is already late for Vietnam to approach G-Cloud at this moment.
However, Thach said, as there has been no official decision by the government relating to the issue, government agencies are still lacking a legal framework to use cloud services. This explains why ministries and departments branches have been running their programmes separately.
In fact, a lot of ministries and departments, including Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and Ho Chi Minh City authorities, have already piloted cloud services.
However, according to Thach, ministries and branches have been using cloud services because they do not have other choices in their conditions.
The Ministry of Science and Technology, for example, has virtualised 80 per cent of its servers. The main reason that led to the decision was that it did not have money to invest in the infrastructure system after the government Resolution No 11 on cutting public spending. Meanwhile, the demand for information technology applications of the ministry’s units has been increasing rapidly.
Analysts have said that government agencies would still be not ready for using cloud services and putting data on cloud for the fear of information security.
Thach has proposed to add the task of developing G-Cloud into the government’s information technology development strategy by 2020, which ministries and departments can refer to when building up their plans.
Meanwhile, cloud service providers have begun targeting government agencies and they have lobbied policymakers and senior practitioners to consider using cloud services.
The forum, now in its third year, brought together over 130 government thought leaders, experienced practitioners and industry experts.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Ha Doan
Quelle/Source: futuregov, 16.05.2012
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