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Strategies

Update 24.12.2025

Learn about all the current digital strategies, as well as their respective action plans.

Cloud Strategy for Public Administration

Last update of the initiative: 20/06/2022

 

Accelerating the digital transition of Public Administration through the use of cloud computing.

 

What is it?

Cloud computing is a network of remote computers connected via the internet that enables data storage and management, application execution, and service delivery.

The Cloud Strategy for Public Administration aims to promote the adoption of cloud solutions by public sector entities.

 

What are the benefits for Public Administration?

The cloud adoption strategy for Public Administration is based on five key principles:

  • Information and data security and sovereignty as critical requirements
  • Building solutions based on public cloud services
  • Prioritising cloud services as provided by vendors
  • Monitoring consumption and service quality
  • Defining an operational exit strategy for each cloud service

 

Benefits

  • Efficiency gains, greater flexibility and scalability, and enhanced cybersecurity and data privacy
  • Clear impact of cloud adoption, as demonstrated by BUPi – Balcão Único do Prédio
  • Incentivising innovation and accelerating the digital transition enabled by cloud technologies
  • Providing management tools to support Public Administration decision-makers in assessing whether to migrate each information system to the cloud

 

Explore the Cloud Strategy for Public Administration.

 

Promoters

Promoting entity:

República Portuguesa