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In February 2022, the federal cabinet approved the Pakistan Cloud First Policy requiring all federal level public service entities to prioritise public cloud for future technology infrastructure.


• The shift from on-premise infrastructure to public cloud can play a catalytic role in Pakistan’s digital transformation by optimizing technology spending; increasing scalability; facilitating flexibility, innovation, and collaboration; increasing resilience and cybersecurity; and ensuring compatibility with emerging technologies.


• To enable an effective and sustainable transition of the public sector to a truly cloud environment, a robust planning, implementation, and change management suite of enabling measures should be instituted. The measures span specific interventions focusing on people (skill development), process (technology procurement and policy implementation), and product (cloud offerings).


 


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