Reflective memo # 13

After looking at Dubai's initiatives for the last several weeks, I found one last thing that I thought would be significant to post before I moved on to the US initiatives. The following article spelled out the e-government initiative pretty well I thought

Dubai Municipality's e-Government Initiative

This outlines their initiative pretty well. Although it is obvious that this is an ongoing project, I think that I have acquired enough information about Dubai's infrastructure initiatives to move on to pulling information about the US and its current initiatives.

One of the things that I discovered, although I had heard it mentioned in class, was the US governments cloud computing intiative. Although this doesn't directly address the lack of physical line infrastructure in the US, it does address the desire to reduce hardware costs associated with supplying services online.

US Federal Cloud Computing Initiative RFQ

There is some verbage in this document that states that the company which wins the contract will be responsible for providing LAN/WAN such that it won't impede data transmission. It also states that the datacenters will need to be located in two different locations and a minimum of 1 GB network speed at each.

This is one of the initiatives that the US government has in place. I am going to focus on finding 1 maybe 2 more such initiatives and then move on to private initiatives for the US. I didn't really find any such initiatives for Dubai other than just the e-government initiative. I am hoping that I will find something in the private sector for Dubai.