Cloud by default: the New South Wales Government Cloud Policy & Strategy

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

In October 2020, the New South Wales (NSW) Government introduced an update to its regional Cloud Policy. The newly updated policy aims to promote a government-wide public cloud by default approach. The accompanying cloud strategy outlines strategic outcomes, key challenges and success measures for public cloud adoption. The success measures include a 25% reduction in ICT procurement across the NSW government and for all agencies to use cloud technology to provide a minimum of 25% of their services by the year 2023.

Country

Australia

Institution

The New South Wales Government