In a presentation to a conference in San Francisco, Willy Chiu, vice president of IBM Cloud Labs, revealed major government initiatives to adopt cloud computing in China and Vietnam, as well as major cloud initiatives in South Africa and the Middle East.

Chiu says that in rolling out cloud platforms across the world, IBM is now helping the governments to bring e-government services onto cloud-based computing platforms, according to this report in Information Week.

The revelation follows major cloud computing announcements by governments in Japan, the US and the UK to adopt a centralized shared platform for government IT requirements.

In China, an IBM cloud services platform in Wuxi is being built to provide processing resources for up to two million software engineers. That platform will soon become a supplier of e-government Web services for a Chinese province, Chiu said.

He also revealed that IBM has teamed up with the Vietnamese government, who is also looking at adopting cloud computing as a way “to move to a services-led economy.”

Other IBM cloud initiatives cited by Chiu include a partnership in South African with a major bank to develop a set of 200 automated processes in a cloud environment in order to share IT skills, and a vertical, oil industry cloud in Qatar in the Middle East that can be share by different companies in the petroleum sector.