What you should know about Angola’s $89 million national cloud project
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- 04 May 2023
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The Angolan government has revealed a grand plan to construct a unified national cloud project offering several services. The project will cost $89 million and includes the construction of two data centres and the modernisation of an existing centre.
Both centres will be connected by a fibre optic ring and will serve to provide high-speed Internet connectivity to government departments and help unify data from all ministerial departments.
The Angolan government expects to complete the project by Q1 2024, and all data centre silos for ministerial departments, which are revealed as unsafe, will be transferred to a single unified location.
According to André Pedro, the director of the National Institute for the Promotion of the Information Society (INFOSI), the national cloud project will also provide a secure environment for citizens’ data and increase the availability of electronic services.
This move also had different side effects. Before now, INFOSI issued the .ao domain for users, but it says that once the project is completed, it will issue licences to companies to that effect. Okay, wait a minute. Why is this newsworthy, you say? Read More..
