Ministry Plans to Transform Island into ICT Hub

12 years, 2 months ago - January 27, 2012

The government is committed to turning Mauritius into an ICT hub. With this vision, a workshop was organised under the theme, ‘Deriving value from cloud computing’ on Wednesday at Domaine les Pailles. This was to encourage both public and private sectors to collaborate to meet future challenges.

ICT minister Tassarajen Pillay Chedumbrum graced this workshop, which was jointly organised by the National Computer Board (NCB) and Oracle. “Cloud computing is seen as a vehicle not only for optimising ICT infrastructure, but more importantly as a place to incubate and foster the development of new businesses on cloud platforms,” said Chedumbrum.
Cloud computing implies the centralisation of hardware, software and data and using the web to allow people or businesses t
o access applications and services. “Without realising, we make use of cloud computing nearly every day. Examples include emails, sharing sites or running applications,” he added.

The ICT minister also underlined that cloud computing has the potential to improve the security of information. “Security breaches due to lost or stolen laptops or USB devices can be tackled by storing data in the cloud. When IT operations are outsourced to the cloud, it largely reduces the operation costs of the organisation,” he stated.

NCB chairman Suraj Ramgolam mentioned that the government is leading the way in adopting cloud computing. He cited several examples that uses the software.

Text by the Independent

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