Congo strengthens its digital infrastructure with the commissioning of a new $6.3 million data center
March 1st 2024
Congo continues to strengthen its national digital infrastructure. The President of the Republic, Denis Sassou N’Guesso, proceeded on Wednesday February 28 to the commissioning of a new Tier 3+ data center built by the Post and Regulatory Agency. electronic communications (ARPCE) in Pointe-Noire. The equipment cost 3.8 billion CFA francs (6.3 million USD).
“The Data Center will thus solve for Congo this global problem that other countries still encounter, that of the storage and security of so-called sovereign data,” declared Louis-Marc Sakala, Director General of ARPCE. The equipment will be able to host all the data of the public administration, the private sector, as well as that of foreign companies.
The commissioning of the Pointe-Noire data center coincides with that of the 2Africa submarine fiber optic cable to which the country connected in August 2023 to compensate for its dependence on the WACS cable. Congo also has a data center built in Brazzaville in 2021 by ARPCE, two backbones and two Internet exchange points, among others. It is also participating in the Central African Backbone (CAB) project which aims to connect the countries of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) via high-speed telecoms infrastructure.
These various investments aim to develop the national cyberspace as part of the Congolese government’s digital transformation ambitions. The executive has made the digital economy one of the pillars of Congo’s socio-economic development in its National Development Plan 2022-2026. Brazzaville also wants to make the country an important digital hub in the Central African sub-region.
Source: Agency EcoFin
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