ABSTRACT
A number of different Big Data (BD)- and cloud-based applications have been developed and deployed in the primary sector of developing countries. This chapter describes the key driving forces in the adoption of BD- and cloud-based applications in the primary sectors. In one way, transnational corporations (TNCs) are likely to be a driving force behind the diffusion of cloud and BD in the primary sector of developing countries. Investments in BD and cloud technologies are flowing from the public as well as private sectors. Developing countries' policy and decision makers in primary sectors have put BD and the cloud high on their organizational and national developmental agenda. In some countries, international agencies have been the driving force behind the adoption of BD and the cloud. Some encouraging signs have emerged to suggest that the adoption of BD and the cloud are likely to get a big boost in the primary sectors of some developing countries.
