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Cloud Computing and Gov 2.0: Traditionalism or Transformation across the Canadian Public Sector?

Cloud Computing and Gov 2.0: Traditionalism or Transformation across the Canadian Public Sector?

Jeffrey Roy
Copyright: © 2014 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 17
ISSN: 2334-4520|EISSN: 2334-4539|EISBN13: 9781466662162|DOI: 10.4018/ijpada.2014010105
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Roy, Jeffrey. "Cloud Computing and Gov 2.0: Traditionalism or Transformation across the Canadian Public Sector?." IJPADA vol.1, no.1 2014: pp.74-90. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijpada.2014010105

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Roy, J. (2014). Cloud Computing and Gov 2.0: Traditionalism or Transformation across the Canadian Public Sector?. International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA), 1(1), 74-90. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijpada.2014010105

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Roy, Jeffrey. "Cloud Computing and Gov 2.0: Traditionalism or Transformation across the Canadian Public Sector?," International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA) 1, no.1: 74-90. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijpada.2014010105

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Abstract

This article seeks to dissect the evolution of digital governance within the Canadian public sector at an expansionary time for cloud computing and wider reforms often referred to as Gov 2.0. Beyond infrastructure, the notion of the cloud may also be viewed as a proxy for a wider societal transformation that, in turn, impacts government both administratively and politically. This wider transformational nonetheless faces tensions between traditional proprietary concepts and mindsets and newer emerging models of open source and shared openness. The future of the Canadian public sector requires a careful navigation and blending of these two worldviews. While some observers may prefer to decouple cloud computing from new governance capacities associated with Gov 2.0 (viewing the cloud instead strictly through a prism of internal architecture and infrastructure), the evidence presented in this article suggests that both directions are intimately related in shaping the public sector going forward.

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