By: Nana
Appiah Acquaye
Senegal Numérique S.A.
(SENUM) and Alibaba Cloud have held a technical workshop to define the main
lines of deployment of Senegal’s planned sovereign cloud infrastructure as the
country advances its digital transformation agenda.
The workshop brought
together teams from Alibaba Cloud and SENUM to discuss the implementation of
the future sovereign cloud, which is expected to support major digital
initiatives under Senegal’s New Technological Deal.
The planned deployment will
include major programmes linked to Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI),
Government Enterprise Architecture (AEG), Public Cloud and an AI Scaling Hub.
SENUM said the sovereign
cloud and the Programme for the Promotion of the Digitalization of Public
Administration (PRODAP) are two fundamental pillars of the New Technological
Deal and the contribution of digital technology to Senegal’s transformation agenda.
The initiative is expected
to support the country's efforts to advance the digitalisation of public
administration and strengthen its digital infrastructure through the
development of sovereign cloud capabilities.
The technical discussions
mark a step towards defining the implementation framework for the future
sovereign cloud, although SENUM did not disclose a deployment timeline or
further technical details.
