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Technical and Environmental Factors Affecting Cloud Computing Adoption in the South African Public Sector

Cloud computing can bring many benefits to organisations and countries. However there are 
technical and environmental factors that could hinder the adoption of these technologies in 
developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of these factors in the 
public sector in developing countries such as South Africa. A detailed literature review revealed 
several factors to cloud computing adoption and these were empirically validated using a survey 
approach. Fifty one respondents from forty public sector organisations in South Africa 
completed the survey. The findings revealed that the majority of the respondents showed concern 
regarding the availability and privacy of data. The environmental factors that were of the most 
importance to respondents were adoption strategies of cloud computing implementations as well 
as the provision of usage guidelines and regulatory requirements in organisations.