The Start of a Journey to the Cloud in the Developing World: A Case Study of Egypt

Cloud computing (CC) is becoming a global market trend that all businesses, sooner or later, will go for. Moving to the cloud is a long journey for developing countries that became aware of its importance to their economic development. Egypt started this journey with collective efforts from all stakeholders (i.e., Government institutes, national and international cloud providers, private businesses, and training institutes) to draw the roadmap for CC adoption in Egypt. CC adoption in Egypt is influenced by some enabling and inhibiting factors. These factors are explored by conducting an exploratory case study. The findings of this study are analyzed by utilizing concepts from the neo-institutional theory (i.e., Isomorphic pressures and strategic responses to institutional processes). The findings indicate that factors enable or inhibit CC adoption in Egypt are variously associated to CC per se, limitations in developing countries in general, and Egyptian context in specific.