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A US SOFTWARE industry report yesterday chided Brazil, China and India for policies it said threatened the future of cloud computing, but also took aim at developed countries such as Germany that did well on its inaugural scorecard.

The Business Software Alliance, which represents US industry heavyweights such as Microsoft Corp, said Brazil finished last in its survey of 24 countries, earning only 35.1 points out of a possible 100 because of its policies in areas such free trade, security, data privacy and cybercrime.

India, which has the world’s second-largest software industry after the US, and China, whose information and communications technology sector is expected to nearly double to $389bn (£247.47bn) by 2015, also were in the bottom six, with scores of 50.0 and 47.5, respectively.Cloud computing refers to providing software, storage, computing power and other services to customers from remote data centers over the Web.

Demand for cloud-based software is rising rapidly because the approach allows companies to start using new programs faster and at lower cost than traditional products that are installed at a customer’s own data center.

A major purpose of the report is to rally the international “technology community around the need for greater harmonization of laws so a truly global cloud can come about,” said Robert Holleyman, president of the US software group.

Without greater coordination of government policies, “the cloud could be chopped into little pieces,” reducing the efficiency that comes from being able to move data and software services freely across borders, Holleyman said.The 24 countries included in the survey represent 80 per cent of the global information and communications technology industry.

They were scored in seven areas, which also included intellectual property protection, infrastructure and support for industry-led standards to promote smooth data flows.Japan was ranked highest with 83.3 points.

It was followed closely by other developed countries including Australia, Germany, the US, France, Italy, the UK and South Korea, which all scored in the high 70s.Strong laws to protect privacy are important to give users confidence “that private information stored in the cloud, wherever in the world, will not be used or disclosed by the cloud provider in unexpected ways, the report said.

Tough security measures are also needed, but some countries such as China that have implemented Internet filtering or censorship regimes could thwart develop of cloud computing and the digital economy, the report said.Brazil scored just 1.6 out of a possible 10 on policies to combat cybercrime, which is expected to become an increasing challenge as more and more information is aggregated in large data centers, making them tempting targets.

Japan and France earn perfect marks in that section, while South Africa came close with a 9.8.Even though Brazil finished dead last in the report, Holleyman said he was more optimistic about the potential to persuade Latin America’s second largest economy to make reforms than he was for China.

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