As Somaliland technology minister reveals plans of establishing a national data Centre
By: Latifa Yusuf Masai
HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – The government of Somaliland is pursuing avenues of interconnecting all its nationwide operations electronically.
This was revealed during a one day meeting held at the Ambassador hotel in Hargeisa where Oracle Cloud Technology hosted government officials.
The high level government team to the Oracle cloud meeting meeting was led by minister of Technology and council coordination Ali Hamud Jibril included his aviation counterpart Farman Aden Haybe, deputy finance and aviation ministers and the ministry of education director General.
During the cloud technology briefing by the country representative of the Djibouti headquartered Mega Bouique that handles Oracle Company activities locally Mr Adanan Hoog benefits of the government utilizing cloud technology for safe and reliable data storage were divulged.
“The Oracle Cloud Platform enables users to Consolidate and manage databases as cloud services and accelerate analytical performance while achieving new levels of efficiency, security, and availability” said the Mega Boutique rep in his opening remarks.
Touching on the impact of lost data through various means like fire, natural disasters, theft that destroy whatever is save manually Adnaan Hoog stressed on the security of data availed by the Oracle Cloud technology courtesy of its secure servers that enable a client to not only maintain the said despite any disasters but anyway on earth as long as internet connection is available.
Similarly it was also informed that the technology also allows a client, in this instance the Somaliland government, to interconnect all its offices from district, regional to national level offices electronic thence facilitate ease of service provision through apt and instantaneous communication.
