The Ministry of Education and Child Care, British Columbia, trusts Fujitsu to manage its critical IT systems. Fujitsu proposed moving the critical MyEdBC student information system to the cloud to enhance scalability and avoid slowdowns at peak periods. Challenge British Columbia in Canada has strict privacy laws. The Ministry needed to ensure student data privacy would be protected and regulatory requirements for in-country data storage would be met when moving to the cloud. Solution The Ministry, in collaboration with Fujitsu, carried out a Privacy Impact Assessment and produced a submission to the government for approval to move to the cloud. Fujitsu also introduced Agile development processes for evolving MyEdBC. Outcomes • The first Ministry to successfully move c

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