Addis Globe, Septemebr 26, 2020

Ahmedin Mohammed (PhD), state minister for Innovation & Technology, has said that his office has completed the preliminary design of the national data center and has prepared a bid document to hire a company for a design-build contract.

As first reported by Addis Fortune, the prospective centre is expected to lie at the ICT Park, which is located close to Bole Lemi Industrial Park. The center is expected to offer cloud services as well as securely kept and stored all the necessary information and statistics of all federal institutions and citizens. The new facility will be a tier III data centre, a system that operates without any notable service disruption. It will have a redundant and dual-powered server, network links and other IT components.

The Ministry and the management of the ICT Park have signed an agreement to secure the space, however, the ministry has yet to receive the land. The Ministry is in negotiations with the Ethiopian Investment Commission and the Industrial Park Development Corporation to conclude the land agreement.

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