As the digitization of the African economy brings important benefits to the day-to-day lives of many Africans the following ADCA members offer even more help in a time of great uncertainty.
The Members joining the Covid-19 free hosting offer are GPX Global Systems from Egypt, PAIX from Ghana, Africa Data Centres from Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, N+ONE Datacenters from Morocco, Galaxy Backbone from Nigeria and Dataxion a PGH Company from Tunisia. These members will provide free hosting of up to 10 Us servers and 2 KW, for any applications aiming to fight the coronavirus in Africa for the rest of 2020.
ADCA highlights the necessity of a resilient data centres infrastructure to enable working from home in Africa and maintain business continuity while ensuring social distancing during the pandemic. It is important that the formal and informal economies can keep functioning. The solution relies on digital tools and ecosystems, all of which are underpinned by data centre infrastructure.