APPLICATION OF DIGITAL CLOUD LIBRARIES FOR ETHIOPIAN PUBLIC HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS (EPHLIS)

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become common place entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of endeavor within business and governance. Investment in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Ethiopia is considered to be one of the highest in the world, taking into consideration the prevailing poverty levels. The basic principle of cloud computing entails the reduction of in-house data centers and the delegation of a portion or all of the Information Technology infrastructure capability to a third party. Universities and Colleges are the core of innovation through their advanced research and development. Digital Cloud Libraries may soon be building and managing their own datacenters. This prototype would let libraries maintain more control over the applications and data stores that contain sensitive, private information about patrons.