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