"The key conclusion of this paper is that the cloud's economies of scale and flexibility are both a friend and a foe from a security point of view. The massive concentrations of resources and data present a more attractive target to attackers, but cloud-based defenses can be more robust, scalable and cost-effective."

He noted that the new world economic revolution required intensive and intelligent use of ICT that must not be limited to the urban centres but should be extended to the grassroots as well.

The survey said the UK was one of four countries, alongside Austria, Malta and Portugal, to have full online availability. The survey found it had progressed 10 points since 2007. The UK also ranked 7th for sophistication of services.

The European Union's security agency today released a comprehensive report designed to teach public and private secret organisations and policy makers how to tap the benefits of cloud computing without falling foul of the security risks.

Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security is the first of its kind from the European Network and Information Security Agency.

This policy direction would be a bench mark policy to help West African country's to regulate the licensing of operators towards the growth of each country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth.

The software aims to allow doctors to study how matched patients at other hospitals have been treated and whether their treatment was successful.

Low bandwidth and limited Internet access are curbing technology advances in healthcare which could drastically improve medical services delivery, according to Yashik Singh, lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's department of tele-health.

There have been several local advances in the field of ICT-related healthcare recently, including a tele-psychiatry service, mobile pathology lab with satellite links for data transfer, and an artificial intelligence algorithm that predicts which HIV drugs a patient is resistant to.

Villagers will be facilitated for payments of telephone, electric and water supply consumer bills and with other essential services like obtaining revenue land records etc. at these centres without plying for it to district headquarter.