Advanced Cloud Systems for Digital Government Development

Governments across Southeast and South Asia are increasingly recognizing the benefits of cloud computing services in driving innovation and productivity, developing and delivering citizen services more efficiently and more extensively, increasing the speed and agility with which government works and responds, while improving security, and realizing cost, time, and manpower efficiencies.

Although governments for some time have been seeking to utilize digital technologies to increase operational efficiency and improve the citizen services of their various ministries and functions, these e-government or digital transformation strategies have had mixed results. Further, the impact and consequences of COVID-19 have highlighted and accelerated the need for cloud computing as a contributor to recovery, economic and social continuity, and resilience, in both the public and private sectors.

In order to ensure the usage of cloud computing technologies (as opposed to merely the deployment)—and in turn the usage of digital government services—this workshop draws from best practices from economies which have operationalized cloud computing services for digital government, and industry insights to set out core success requirements that need to be in place for effective government digital transformation.

The online event will have several sessions, including active participant discussions, expert presentations, and panel discussions on:

• Governing Cloud: Setting out best practice cloud policy principles, and includes learnings from jurisdictions who have already operationalized cloud.

• Structural Change: Setting out the role of leadership, and how organizations have changed and adapted throughout the government cloud adoption process.

• Cloud Migration: Setting out how governments and government agencies can navigate migrating to cloud.

• Procurement: Highlighting procurement principles for cloud, ensuring strategies are scalable and supportive of government cloud.

Moderators:

Dr. Peter Lovelock, Head of Fair Tech Policy, Access Partnership

Lim May-Ann, Director, Fair Tech Institute, Access Partnership and Executive Director, Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA)

Speakers:

• Natasha Beschorner, Senior Digital Development Specialist, The World Bank Group

• James Cerven, Regional Technology Officer, US Consulate General, Sydney

• Jasmine Begum, Director of Legal, Government & Corporate Affairs, ASEAN and New Markets, Microsoft

• Ben Vandersteen, Technical Architect, GDS Advisory

• Sassoon Grigorian, Senior Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy, APAC & Japan, Salesforce

• Mark Lenzner, Executive Director, ICT / Digital Sourcing, NSW Government

• Prapanpong Khumon, Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce and Advisor to Secretary-General of the Personal Data Protection Committee, Thailand

• Jane Treadwell, Lead, Government Transformation, Asia Pacific and Japan, Government Transformation Team, Amazon Web Services

• Steven Davis, Infrastructure & Cloud Business Specialist

• Dr. Lee Hing-Yan, Executive Vice President of Asia Pacific (APAC) for Cloud Security Alliance

• Nikki Mendez, Advisor to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), Philippines

Once you have registered, you will be sent a calendar invite with the link to join the event.