ACM IMC 2024
Our paper “Of Choices and Control - A Comparative Analysis of Government Hosting” was accepted for IMC 2024!
In this paper we present a large-scale analysis of the adoption of third-party serving infrastructures in government digital services across 61 countries, examining the preferred hosting models for all public-facing government sites and associated resources.Among other findings, we show that governments predominantly rely on third-party infrastructure for data delivery, although this varies significantly across and within regions, with even neighboring countries showing contrasting patterns. Despite a preference for third-party hosting solutions, most government URLs in our study are served from domestic servers, although again with significant regional variation.
This research work is the result of a collaboration with Rashna Kumar, Esteban Carisimo and Fabián Bustamante from Northwestern University, Mauricio Buzzone and Lukas De Angelis Riva from Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Ihsan Ayyub Qazi from Lahore University of Management Sciences.
It will be presented at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference in Madrid, Spain on November 4-6, 2024.
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