Impact of Driving Factors on Cloud Computing Adoption in the Higher Education

The aim of this research is to explore the sociocultural and economic factors
involved in the adoption of emerging technology, i.e., the cloud at the University in Ethiopia. Organizations' growth and development depend on the various factors that influence productivity and efficiency to improve the work culture. The data collected from the relevant key actors or stakeholders from the higher education system i.e., University of Gondar, Ethiopia, and complied in a purposive way. The researcher identified the most inducing factors under the sociocultural categories are societal belief with regression weight SoCF_1=0.821, followed by ideologies or value of individual towards CC, language barrier, and awareness towards the cloud. Similarly, the most inducing economic factors were high investment cost with regression weight EcoF_1=1.096, followed by per capita income, government grants and infrastructure development. The framework from the full-scale analysis will theoretically lead to the creation of a discussion model that can be used to examine cloud adoption in higher education.