Cloud Computing in Indian Higher Education

Amitava Ghosh, Abhishek Chakraborty, Sourav Saha and Ambuj Mahanti
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Amitava Ghosh: Amitava Ghosh (corresponding author) is a doctoral student at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, West Bengal, India. E-mail: amitavag10@iimcal.ac.in
Abhishek Chakraborty: Abhishek Chakraborty is a doctoral student at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, West Bengal, India. E-mail: abhishekc08@iimcal.ac.in
Sourav Saha: Sourav Saha is a doctoral student at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, West Bengal, India. E-mail: souravs08@iimcal.ac.in
Ambuj Mahanti: Ambuj Mahanti is Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, West Bengal, India. E-mail: am@iimcal.ac.in

IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 2012, vol. 1, issue 2, 85-95

Abstract: In developing countries, education plays a very important role in maintaining the momentum of economic growth. In a country like India with a population of over a billion, one of the biggest challenges that the government faces in providing education is the provisioning and maintenance of infrastructure. The infrastructural issue can be viewed from two dimensions: on one hand, the lack of investments and on the other hand, the difficulties in maintaining such infrastructures. This article focuses on the lack of investment and suggests the use of cloud computing as a form of possible remedy. This article uses Rogers’ diffusion framework for the penetration of cloud computing in the higher education sector of India and proposes a cloud model for a higher educational institute.

Keywords: Cloud computing; higher education; human capital; diffusion of innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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