KUNA : Large sites allocated for Kuwait Cloud Google — official – Economics – 24/05/2023 – Kuwait News Agency

KUNA : Large sites allocated for Kuwait Cloud Google — official – Economics – 24/05/2023 – Kuwait News Agency

KUWAIT, May 24 (KUNA) -- The Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority declared on Wednesday specializing three sites to build data centers of mega space for Google Cloud Kuwait company.



Minister of State for Municipal Affairs and Minister of State for Communication Affairs Fahad Al-Shu'la said in a news conference marking the occasion that digital transformation has become a tangible and inevitable reality particularly during the coronavirus crisis.



Affirming that achieving objectives of Kuwait Vision 2023 is certain, the minister emphasized the government resolve to build effective and fruitful partnerships with international and local technological corporates, companies, start-ups and innovative business pioneers.



For his part, Dr. Ammar Al-Husseini, the acting director general of the Information Technology Center, said the strategic alliance with Google would lead to significant benefits for the Kuwaiti economy, in addition to fruits to be reaped at the security, human and technological levels.



This coalition, he added, would enable 114 government departments and institutions to benefit from the clouding services.



Dr. Al-Husseini indicated at formation of an oversight panel headed by the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA) to supervise the contract with Google and an