The Cloud and Sustainable Development in Developing Nations

Sustainable development is an issue that global economies face in this century. Since from economics point of view, the productive resources are scarce while as the human needs are unlimited there is need of identifying ways of utilizing natural and capital resources in meeting effectively the unlimited needs of the current and future generations which require a concerted effort of global nations while safeguarding the environment. Cloud computing is one of ICTs model that greatly impacts upon sustainable development in nations which is in its latent stage in developing economies in terms of adoption by stakeholders such governments, learning institutions, business enterprises, consumers partly because of lack of knowledge about it and the challenge of adequate infrastructure. With cloud the resources which were utilized traditionally – software, hardware, storage facilities, computing are centralized and virtually accessed at any time from data centres. Based on this backdrop, this article theoretically defines cloud and describes its benefits and challenges before ending with a suggestive conclusion in relation to sustainable development in developing nations.