Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2023 Nominee

Djezzy Cloud Programme


Description

Public Clouds are game changers in ICT and has shown by now their high potential to improve flexibility and competitivity as we can see many companies adopted digitalization and cloud first strategies using Public Cloud products. In this context, digital sovereignty has become a major concern, and is nowadays a widely discussed topic all over the world.
As leader in telecommunications and mobile network operator in Algeria, providing services to millions of mobile subscribers in the country, Djezzy aims to become a leader in digital services and build a sovereign cloud with high added value to the B2B market.
Djezzy sovereign Cloud project has following objectives :
Provide IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services in a one stop marketplace
Support digitalization in the country by helping businesses in their digitalization and adoption of cloud solutions
Offering a reliable, resilient and secure cloud services to the B2B market by providing a full range of ICT security services
Participate in the development of digital and economic ecosystem in Algeria

We believe that this project will help businesses improving in many areas such as reduce CAPEX, externalize hardware and software maintenance, focus on their core business, improve business continuity and reduce time to market, help new business and startups to enter quickly the market. It will also help reduce environmental footprint of IT services in the country and enable innovation.

Project website

https://www.djezzy.dz/cloud


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure 2023
  • AL C4. Capacity building
  • AL C5. Building confidence and security in use of ICTs
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Coverage
  • Algeria

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2021

End date

Not set


Replicability

Djezzy sovereign cloud services will be installed on multi site datacenters with hyper converged and software defined infrastructure that abstract the hardware and virtualization layers and present IaaS/PaaS/SaaS services to the Business. The platform will be based on a single API to ensure integration and the Services will be automated to ensure replicability and scalability.


Sustainability

The Djezzy sovereign cloud project will bring sustainability by helping reduce on-premises footprint associated with power, cooling and hardware for companies that will adopt the Cloud. It will also help companies and institutions in the digitalization of their services which will help reduce their carbon footprint and participate improving sustainability in the country.


WSIS values promotion

Creating a sovereign and public cloud that provides IT services in a competitive and accessible way will help democratize IT services and make it more accessible for all B2B and B2G. Later on it will also be opened for B2C. This will promote the development of many areas in the country, in public and private sectors. For example : education, communication, digital business, data analytics, health sector, by enabling the development of innovative digital solutions and promote startups. It will also help accelerate the development of the economic and digital ecosystem in the country, building capacity and confidence in secure ITCs, enabling regional and international cooperation.


Entity name

Optimum Telecom Algerie (Djezzy)

Entity country—type

Algeria Government

Entity website

https://www.djezzy.dz