On the 21st of May, Orange's Cameroon CEO, Elisabeth Medou Badang gave an interview to newsducamer.com, at the International Forum on Digital Economy. In that interview she expressed herself on the contribution of Orange Cameroon to the digital economy, Camtel's monopole on fiber optic cable in the country as well as upcoming project notably, the future inauguration of a data center in Cameroon.
According to her, there's a serious increase in the amount of data and therefore there's a serious need to save and protect them. Therefore we may guess that this data center will be mainly or solely dedicated to storage and nothing else ? Or Orange Cameroon may provide new services relating to cloud ? What we can be sure of is that Orange's cloud services will be boosted thus facilitating access to the cloud to it customers.
As she says, this data center will be the largest among all those already existing in French speaking African countries and will be inaugurated in the upcoming days. However what I'm not really sure of is if these data will be protected. I don't think there's any law in Cameroon protecting users data, giving the right to the government to have access to these data thereby violating our privacies. Maybe this is another machinery developed by them to monitor our doings on the internet, especially after the Cameroonian government has launched it campaign against those spreading fake news over social medias.
Read the whole interview here
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