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Cloud Computing and Developing Nations
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/2749/042010_CACMpg18_Cloud_Computing_and_Developing.large.jpg?1271684127&1271684126 "Kenyan developer Wilfred Mworia with Steve Mutinda")
In Kenya, Wilfred Mworia, left, created an iPhone application using only an online iPhone simulator and Steve Mutinda made an Ushahidi application for Java-enabled mobile phones.
Credit: Erik Hersman
For a growing number of organizations worldwide, cloud computing offers a quick and affordable way to tap into IT infrastructure as an Internet service. But obstacles and challenges remain.
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(1)A major issue with Cloud Computing is the fear that companies have of their data sitting in the cloud. No amount of software tricks can completely secure data when the physical hard disks are in the cloud providers control. In developed countries this is going to be dealt via laws and courts. However in developing countries like India with dysfunctional legal systems where a contract is literally impossible to enforce via the courts how can a company be persuaded to put their data out on the cloud?
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