The objective of this study was to analyse the current national initiatives for the deployment of... more The objective of this study was to analyse the current national initiatives for the deployment of clouds in the public sector in ten Member States, to identify and describe best practice use cases and to propose pilots for those application areas where current cloud take-up is absent or however limited. So far, in the 10 Member States covered by the study (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom), the deployment of cloud in the public sector (at the national level) is at a very early stage. The Member States have taken very different approaches regarding cloud in terms of applications covered (citizen-type, employee-type, vertical, critical, sensitive), type of infrastructure (public cloud versus private cloud), relationships with e-government applications (development from scratch or just migration of existing applications), or global policy. These approaches can be clustered into 3 main emerging models (with their own...
The Swiss Innovation Agency (CTI) has administrated its collaborative research funding scheme sin... more The Swiss Innovation Agency (CTI) has administrated its collaborative research funding scheme since the early 1980s. Between 1989 and 2002 the scheme was evaluated 14 times. In a study combining meta-evaluation and evaluation synthesis, we assessed these existing evaluations against a variety of criteria, including selected evaluation standards of the Swiss Evaluation Society. The meta-evaluation showed that the existing evaluations were mostly qualitative, internal and ex post and that evaluation practice at the CTI was episodic. The evaluations differed in quality, with most evaluation standards being fulfilled adequately to fairly well. The results of the meta-evaluation were central to the ensuing evaluation synthesis by giving information on the adequacy of the existing evaluations. The synthesis compiled the—mostly qualitative—results of the evaluations. Our study shows that there are patterns of outputs and outcomes in evidence across the evaluation studies that suggest that CTI funding is having an effect in terms of outputs and outcomes. But it also shows that there are gaps in the evidence base of the evaluation studies that make it difficult to come to more precise conclusions.
The objective of this study was to analyse the current national initiatives for the deployment of... more The objective of this study was to analyse the current national initiatives for the deployment of clouds in the public sector in ten Member States, to identify and describe best practice use cases and to propose pilots for those application areas where current cloud take-up is absent or however limited. So far, in the 10 Member States covered by the study (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom), the deployment of cloud in the public sector (at the national level) is at a very early stage. The Member States have taken very different approaches regarding cloud in terms of applications covered (citizen-type, employee-type, vertical, critical, sensitive), type of infrastructure (public cloud versus private cloud), relationships with e-government applications (development from scratch or just migration of existing applications), or global policy. These approaches can be clustered into 3 main emerging models (with their own...
The Swiss Innovation Agency (CTI) has administrated its collaborative research funding scheme sin... more The Swiss Innovation Agency (CTI) has administrated its collaborative research funding scheme since the early 1980s. Between 1989 and 2002 the scheme was evaluated 14 times. In a study combining meta-evaluation and evaluation synthesis, we assessed these existing evaluations against a variety of criteria, including selected evaluation standards of the Swiss Evaluation Society. The meta-evaluation showed that the existing evaluations were mostly qualitative, internal and ex post and that evaluation practice at the CTI was episodic. The evaluations differed in quality, with most evaluation standards being fulfilled adequately to fairly well. The results of the meta-evaluation were central to the ensuing evaluation synthesis by giving information on the adequacy of the existing evaluations. The synthesis compiled the—mostly qualitative—results of the evaluations. Our study shows that there are patterns of outputs and outcomes in evidence across the evaluation studies that suggest that CTI funding is having an effect in terms of outputs and outcomes. But it also shows that there are gaps in the evidence base of the evaluation studies that make it difficult to come to more precise conclusions.
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