strategic data as national security concern --- @Eduardo and Guillaume. I tend to agree with your views expressed. However, while the cold war rages between East and West for geo-political dominance, other countries do not necessarily have to be caught up in their game of thrones; the Issue of lack of IT resources to maintain own's sovereign data, assumes that there must be a Level 4 top quality "bells & whistles" Data Centre or high cost to pay for housing data from the Amazons or IBMs or Googles of the world. If there are limited financial resources, why not compromise and have a regional cloud to take care of say 10 countries within a particular region?

Source author: Bennette Thomas thomasb@dominica.gov.dm