2024-07-04 06:38:26
During a meeting organised on Monday to present the conclusions of its opinion on the cloud, the EESC focuses on the factors which favour the deployment and adoption of the Cloud by the actors, with the aim of accelerating the digital transformation of our country while ensuring the sovereignty of sensitive and vital data, the council reported in a press release.
In this self-referral entitled “The cloud, a necessity and an urgency for successful digital transformation”, the Council emphasizes that the use of the cloud would make it possible to respond to numerous strategic issues including the digital sovereignty of data, the achievement of economies of scale and IT energy as well as the acceleration of technological disruptions, adds the press release.
Despite this significant potential, the national offer remains oriented towards the most common needs (hosting, infrastructure as a service, frequent applications), without covering the full diversity of application offers and high added value services (software as a service), added the same source.
Speaking at the opening of this meeting, the President of the EESC, Ahmed Réda Chami, stressed that the cloud is an essential lever for accelerating and successfully achieving the digital transition.
Mr. Chami highlighted “the urgent need to equip ourselves with a ‘cloud priority’ action plan as part of the digital transition strategy.”
It is important to give primary importance to the cloud in the digital transition strategy currently being finalized and to urgently establish a “cloud priority” action plan aimed at its deployment and the promotion of its use in order to accelerate the digital transformation and ensure data sovereignty, the press release states.
For his part, Abdellah Deguig, member of the ESC and rapporteur of the theme, who presented the conclusions of the Council’s opinion on the subject of this meeting, noted that Morocco has certainly experienced rapid growth in IT outsourcing (more than 40% between 2018 and 2020). However, it remains below expectations, as evidenced by the rate of outsourcing of IT resources which did not exceed, in 2020, 35% in Western Europe and 51% in Asia-Pacific.
Based on the diagnosis carried out and the lessons learned from international experiences, the EESC proposes a set of recommendations with a view to positioning our country as a leading regional player in cloud services. The ultimate objective is to establish itself, at continental level, as a “data embassy” by offering advanced cloud services and ensuring that national players are involved.
This involves, among other things, setting up, following the example of the Offshoring experience, a specific framework to encourage the installation of global and/or international cloud players (Hyperscalers) in Morocco and to design a scenario for setting up a sovereign cloud solution for vital and sensitive applications and data.
It is also about prioritizing the use of the cloud for all new government projects and supporting administrations in the migration of their existing systems to the cloud.
The EESC also recommends supporting VSEs/SMEs wishing to adopt the cloud, while providing financial incentives to user companies, developing local skills in cloud professions and promoting a national ecosystem of start-ups that can benefit from cloud technology (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS).
2024-07-04 06:38:26