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Technology and innovation changing development in Africa
The two believe attending Africom will open doors and connect them with the rest of the continent.
“We are looking for potential investor to move our product nationally and across the continent and also connecting us to potential investors,” Matjeni told reporters.
Meanwhile, in West Africa, Alcatel-Lucent is to provide the government of Burkina Faso with cloud networking technology that will enable it to develop new digital public services, such as e-government, e-learning and e-health.
Alcatel-Lucent will supply the West African nation with its NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), Cloudband and IP platforms, which will be integrated into the “G-Cloud” infrastructure to being built around virtualised network resources from cloud nodes in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital, and 5 provinces.
“This is the first Government Cloud in the region and this project will show how a forward thinking government is using the cloud technology to provide its citizens with access to government’s services,” Alpin Verlet, head of Alcatel-Lucent activities in West and Central Africa said.
Source: The Africa Report
