The vision of the Government for an Intelligent, Smart and Digital Mauritius calls for a paradigm shift in our Government interactions that advocates the issuance, sharing and verification of documents to be done in a digital way. MoKloud is an initiative under the Digital Government Transformation Strategy 2018 – 2022, aimed at transforming Mauritius into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
Targeted at the idea of paperless governance and announced as a budgetary measure, MoKloud is implemented to offer a secure, flexible and easy-to-use platform for sharing, issuance and verification of documents and certificates in digital mode, thereby eliminating the use of physical documents.
Sharing of data among Ministries and Departments is now a reality and one of the key instruments of this data sharing initiative is the InfoHighway platform, which has been developed to specifically address sharing of data amongst public organisations and even private entities through web services. However, InfoHighway is currently set up to serve corporates only and citizens do not have access to the platform. Moreover, the design of the existing solution is limited to sharing of data only, excluding documents.
The MoKloud platform leverages on the InfoHighway infrastructure to provide a highly secure, flexible and user-friendly solution to enable government issued documents to be moved to electronic form and make it available for real-time access to citizens. MoKloud is a secure cloud-based platform for storage, issuance and verification of documents and certificates in digital mode. The documents available on the MoKloud platform are generated using data available via InfoHighway.

https://mokloud.govmu.org

• Mauritius

Replicable in different countries because of a need to share official documents with citizens.

An in-house team of developers are maintaining the project as well as are reflecting on possible enhancements.

Citizens have the freedom to retrieve their official documents without cost in real time. No citizen will be deprived of their documents due to any type of constraints such as financial cost, travelling barriers. On providing the documents digitally, the responsibilities of the Civil Status officers, to provide citizens with authentic documents, are being shared by MoKloud. Additionally, this will reduce the travelling of citizens, less paper print and citizens will have more leisure time to be more innovative. Less travelling and less paper usage will surely contribute to preserving nature and the environment.