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World Wide Web Resources

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• Wikipedia article on Cloud Computing with extensive list of sources
• ITU Report: Distributed Computing: Utilities, Grids and Clouds 
• Cloud Computing definition by NIST
• The Economist Special Report: A Survey of Corporate IT
• Paper on Cloud Computing Can Close the Development Gap by Kenneth I Juster (Salesforce.com)
• Cloud computing blog posts by Andrea DiMaio (Gartner)
• Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing
• Presentation on Cloud Computing by Bill Whyman, ISI Group  
• Take Your Business to a Higher Level (paper by Sun Microsystems),Sun Cloud website
• Webcast on Demystifying the cloud by Drue Reeves, Burton Group
• Clearing the air on cloud computing (McKinsey)
• Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman
• Federal Budget Lays Out Government Cloud Computing Plans (USA)
• Cloud computing is making high-end computing readily available to researchers in rich and poor nations alike
  Using ICTs for Accelerated Service Delivery (One World South Asia) 
• ICT for Development on the Development Gateway
• ELDIS ICT for Development
• Digital Dividend Project Clearinghouse
• IADB Information Technology for Development
• International Telecommunication Union (BDT)
• UNDP ICT for Development
• UNESCO Information Society Observatory
• UN ICT Task Force
• Cyber Legislation Journal (Focused on the Philippines)

 Please suggest other useful links!