Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)-The Bangladesh government is planning to move to cloud computing ‘G’ (government) to save all the information relating to the nation’s electronics and to help citizens with these services.
As a part of this initiative, a team from the government travelled to Singapore early last month.
The team discussed with two Singaporean companies, who provide cloud solutions, to gain further knowledge has begun to implement what they had learned upon their return to the country, reports hifipublic.
The team representing the government has primarily gained knowledge on cloud computing, infrastructure construction, management and expenditure.
The team was led by Zunaid Ahmed Palak, State Minister of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said that the government was moving to G cloud.
However, it would be fully implemented after the construction of the Kaliyakoi National Data Center (the 5th largest in the world).
He mentioned that the government can move to G cloud within the next one year. He noted the necessity of G cloud and said that to save and gather information in the long run and on a large scale, they will have to eventually move to Cloud solutions.
Cloud computing relies on internet dependent computing.
This computing technology can make use of the internet and central remote server, to control and save data and apps.
Through internet based apps, any computer with internet access can help a user to download and install the apps and also access their own files.
This allows all kinds of activities to be done on the web. In this regard, every use can be considered as a client.
The Bangladesh government is also going to use this service as a client.
A.H.M Mahfuzul Arif, Chairman of Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) was also a part of the representative team.
He said that G cloud is a citizen service and that they have looked into how Bangladesh can be added to the remote server, while they were in Singapore.
The two cloud provider institutions in Singapore has presented them with details of how health system works, how the education system can be modernized and maintained, national identity, etc., including how easily and fast these services can be availed.
Sumon Ahmed Sabir, IT analyst and main strategic officer of Fiber At Home, said that we are being IT driven more and more each day and our electronic data is increasing as well.
He goes on to say that these data need to be kept somewhere. Previously such data was stored in computers and later in the central server, but a new means of storage is required as there are risks of server crashes. Hence, the cloud solutions came into being.
He also believes that moving to cloud will mean that the data will be properly preserved and easily accessed. However, he thinks that the responsibility of handling this service should be given to a local company, saying that it wouldn’t be right for any other country to host the data of our nation.
BBN/AS-14Sept14-2:40pm (BST)
