Once upon a time, it was thought that it was the responsibility of the government to make sure public services worked: roads, defence, and later on public communications like mail and phones.
However, in this brave new world of electrons no government, as far as I know, has taken the step that seems logical: to guarantee that we all have a free mail-account and server space to save our data.
Both the technology and the cost is now at a level where it would be very easy.
"It is not needed", you say. "There are plenty of free services out there already."
As far as I know, there is no free service, but there are plenty of ad-sponsored services. And I do not know about you. I freely admit that I do not trust my government very much to honour the confidentiality of my data, but I trust it much more than any commercial provider.
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