The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will enable the MoIT to host E-Governance Software applications at PTCL data center.
The MoU for data center hosting facility was signed by the Minister of State for IT & Telecom, Ms. Anusha Rahman, and President, PTCL, Waleed Irshad.
This MoU will provide free of cost services to the ministry for a period of fifteen (15) months. It is important to mention that PSDP project Titled “Federal Government Data Center & Internet” was approved through executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) in July, 2004. However, Electronic Government Directorate (EGD) has remained unable to deploy data center to date.
During the MoU signing ceremony, Waleed Irshad, President PTCL said that GoP is in the process of implementation of E-Governance program across the country. PTCL fully support the E-Governance initiative and considers it as an honor and mandate to support GoP, especially for the provision of hosting of E-Governance applications at PTCL tier-3 Data Center.
The Honorable Minister of the state for IT appreciated PTCL for its support and voluntary provision of Date Center facility to host E-Governance applications. The Minister further added that E-Governance will definitely play a significant role in bringing less paper environment, efficiency, transparency and good governance in the Government.
Doesn’t surprise me the least bit that the MoIT chose PTCL for data centre hosting facilities, PTCL having the biggest infrastructure in Pakistan does help them in hosting the government’s information.
Nice informations.
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