Microsoft has partnered with Ghana’s National Information Technology Agency (NITA) to create a national data centre for public administration.
Emmanuel Onyeje, Microsoft’s general manager of Anglophone West Africa, announced the partnership in Accra while addressing the Ghana Executive Briefing.
He said the data centre would help NITA in improving its information flow. The first phase of the three-phase project has been completed, with the second to be completed by the end of the year.
Onyeje expressed the commitment of Microsoft to government’s ongoing e-governance project and the company is supporting the efforts of NITA and other agencies to ensure the success of the initiative.
He said: “For example, we are now creating assets in the oil sector. We need to protect those assets for the organisations and Microsoft has solutions to that.
“In healthcare as well, which is a very important aspect of the e-governance project, Microsoft will be providing technology that can help health officials in the remotest part of the country save lives.”
Onyeje said technology such as sensors, cameras and satellites monitoring the pipes was one example of how Microsoft could help the country.
He also said they could train the security forces to react to alerts within 30 minutes.
