Bhutan e-Government Master Plan Planning number and Monitoring of G2C, G2B System, and and G2G Civil Service activities already practice of maintaining for reliable and several Systems. for ICT to be available at all efficient data centres. server rooms The initiated will further increase Agency’s ICT and data holdings. The rising demand times will increase the need Information with sub-optimal The current conditions is not only costly but also unreliable and insecure. Having a Government Data Centre will therefore extend several benefits such as: i) Consolidated demand and use of resources; il) Reduced cost of maintaining and managing data centre physical infrastructure and associated costs; ill) Increased efficiency of data centre ICT assets; iv) Improved matching of data centre ICT facilities to business need; v) Standardized ICT infrastructure architectures; and vi) Sharing of resources. In view of our limited infrastructure and resources systems, and to a Government optimise Data the Centre use needs of our existing to be established. This will avoid inefficient, costly and fragmented practices of the past and build a sound governance structure for ICT applications and e-services. It would opportunity for the government to do away with the current piecemeal which forces aggregating up the demand costs for as well data as centre avoid space duplication. and This achieve be an approach will better enable price of equipments as well as other related services such as power systems. Government Data Centre will best function if its operations and maintenance are outsourced. In order that a third party delivers smooth services of operating and maintain the GDC, the ministry in charge will execute the following processes. 1. MolC will set Government 2. MolC will a policy to mandate all government agencies to use the Data Centre as a hot site for all their ICT infrastructure needs. establish through a Government detailed Demand requirements of all Government Agencies Analysis for a longer term. (aggregate the whole of government data centre demand) 3. MolC will recommend a conceptual design of the GDC be provided along with the GDC business model. and the services to

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