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8 Assisting developing countries

Summary

Supplement 46 to the ITU-T Y-series Recommendations applies to the ITU-T Y.3500 series Recommendations.
Cloud computing has the potential to alleviate some of the socio-economic challenges being faced in
developing countries such as lack of resilient electrical power, lack of information and communication
technology (ICT) infrastructure and can also improve service delivery to mention but a few.
Emanating from a survey conducted on the status of cloud computing in developing countries, this
Supplement highlights the requirements and challenges of cloud computing provision and consumption in
developing countries with regards but not limited to standards implementation, data connectivity and
infrastructure deployment.

Keywords
Broadband, challenges, cloud computing, cloud service customer, cloud service provider, information and
communications technology, Internet, quality of service, service level agreement, standards.

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