Inter-school Information Sharing Activities Through Cloud Services: User Willingness and Less Favoured Areas

Abstract

Cloud services means services provided by cloud computing provider based on user requirements. Popular cloud services activities nowadays are online data storage, data backup solutions, document collaboration services and database processing. This research has two main objectives. First objective of this research are to determine the willingness of inter-school information sharing on cloud. Second research objective is to determine less favoured category of information shared on cloud. This research paper was produce by using two research methods. First technique utilized the quantitative research method that used questionnaire to gather data and information on user willingness. Second technique was using the literature method that collect the information sharing activities among schools through an analysis of related research paper to determine the less favored information sharing category to be shared on cloud. Next, the information collected on these two techniques was analysed based on the research objectives. Results of this research are respondents highly agree and willing to share school information inter-organization and intra-organization. Other results of this research are social information is one of the less favoured category of information to be shared among schools on cloud. They prefer to share on education areas mainly and also some schools prefer to share on administrative area.