Given the importance of technology in enhancing governance, African governments have begun to adopt tech innovations to catalyze their administrative processes.
Angola is one such country, as the Southern African country has set aside $89 million to build its National data cloud system. This initiative plan identifies Angola among countries promoting governance using the instrumentality of technology to digitalize governance, improving the quality of public services to citizens.
Before this time, the Angolan government had identified the challenges resulting from inadequate or lack of technological infrastructure. And now, Angola is ready to overcome these challenges of poor technical infrastructure, which has fostered complete dependence on the local internet network.
The complete reliance on local internet networks has not given the government the platform to provide digital public services to citizens solely. Angola developing tech in its sphere serves as a good start for future development and progress. With the ongoing construction of the states’ private network intended to interconnect the internet network of ministries, the plan to explore technology in government is solidified.
The country is building two data centres serving as a data relay network for modulated networking and operational data storage, which supports easy access to stored information.
How does the Angolan government aim to achieve this?
According to the Director at National Institute for the Promotion of the Information Society (INFOSI), Andre Pedro, the data stations will be connected with a fibre optic ring of 50 Gigabytes per second and another connection with a capacity of 10 Gigabytes per second for interconnecting different ministerial departments to the main data center, supporting wireless telecommunication of government ministries.
The system would be built in line with a national government cloud system providing over 80 services, having a technical design of 204 server cabinets. Presently, work has started already and will continue to February or March 2024.
Does the government have any other reason for building its own data center?
The fear of data leakage from third-party cloud services may also be the reason for building a state private network with a data center for safe data keeping, but that still does not guarantee a protected system. Nevertheless, some users of cloud data services may prefer to monitor data themselves than employ a third-party service.
Moreover, Pedro stated that Angola would have greater respect and security over citizens’ data, adding that the cloud system would be branched into sovereign bodies, state administration and the information society.
What do you see in the step the Angola government has taken, will Angola climb on the pedestal to become the most technological country in Africa?
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