By 2018, cross-governmental initiatives will be further streamlined and optimised by 25% growth of collaborative sourcing for government clouds.
According to the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Government 2015 Predictions, other insights for 2015 include:
* Competing to build innovative and sustainable smart cities, by 2018, local government will drive over 25% of government spend to deploy and realize the business value of Internet of Things (IoT).
* To optimise decision making, by 2020, 50% of big data analytics (BDA) investment will focus on citizen service, public health, smart cities, and reducing fraud, waste, and abuse.
* By 2020, more than 50% of government agencies with direct citizen engagement missions will direct at least 25% of their programmatic budget to 3rd Platform technologies and IoT.
* Natural hazards will, by 2018, drive 20% of governments involved in emergency response to invest in predictive IT solutions to prevent, manage, and mitigate damage and loss.
* Crime, terrorism, and cyberthreats will compel national governments to allocate 15% of IT and programmatic budgets to institutionalised BDA and threat intelligence by 2017.
* Only 5% of governments recognize the emergence of data as a strategic asset — current standardisation of organisational compliance risk management is alarmingly lacking.
* Facilitated by cloud and the cognitive applications of big data, 50% of governments globally, by 2017, will invest in collaborative systems for collective knowledge initiatives.
* By 2020, 40% of government employees will use multiple form factors on a daily basis including but not limited to smartphones, tablets, notebooks/hybrid devices, and wearables.
* By 2018, cross-governmental initiatives will be further streamlined and optimised by 25% growth of collaborative sourcing for government clouds.
* In 2020, about 10% of physical asset–intensive government departments will invest in predictive maintenance enabled by the intersection of big data, IoT, mobile, and cloud.
“IDC believes that several external drivers — political, economic, social, environmental, legal, and business related — are reaching crucial tipping points and have the potential to dramatically alter the ecosystem of multiple industries globally, including governments in 2015 and beyond,” says Shawn McCarthy, research director of IDC Government Insights.
