By symbolic putting the students’ wish box in the Rack cabinet, Ana Brnabic the Prime Minister and Mihailo Jovanovic, Director at Office for Information Technologies and e-Government officially formalized the start of the construction of the State Data Center in Kragujevac, one of the best in the world. This is the infrastructure project of national significance and the State will invest in the construction 30 million €. The building with 1180 RACK cabinets will cover 11000 m2 , and the maintenance of the system will employ several hundred of people.
Selection of Kragujevac for the seat of the most important IT building in the country marks the Kragujevac as officially safest city in Serbia, said the Mayor Radomir Nikolic. Additionally, in the autumn City Data Center will be launched as a local base for the development of the smart city. All these will change the image of Kragujevac and positions the City on the digital map of both Serbia and the region.
State along with the State Data Center in Kragujevac implements several very significant projects of total value of half billion of Euros. The construction of infrastructure in the industrial zone of Sobovica is completed together with the flats for young scientists. Flats for the employees of the Ministry of Interior, the Centres of Excellence of the University of Kragujevac, Palace of Justice, new district prison while the reconstruction of the Clinic Centre and the City Hall of Sumadija are in preparation.
The construction of the Science and Technology Park is envisaged along with the new city stadium, general hospital, gas power plant, north bypass and completion of Petrovac main road. The Government by aforementioned counts on us and expects from us equally much.
Construction of the Sate Data Centre represents infrastructural turning point in the ICT sector development in Serbia and is an opportunity within the 4th industrial revolution to skip dozens of steps within the 4th industrial revolution and reach the European and World technologies best, said Mihailo Jovanovic Director at Office for Information Technologies and e-Government. State and local governments will first time have their own data center for equipment and data with world’s best technical and safety standards .All these will provide for the systematic and faster Information system construction of the E- government, more efficient networking of data base and development of the different services of E- government for the citizens, economy and the state.
State Data Center with several hundred of IT experts will enable data storing of the large commercial users, too. Among the first are companies Microsoft, Oracle, and Postanska Stedionica Bank whose representatives today signed the MoU with the Office for Information Technologies and e-Government. MoU signing with the two worlds IT giants and the largest domestic business bank, added Jovanovic indicates the potentials of the State Data Center together with the interest of using the its commercial capacities.
This is most important day brings Serbia to the future, said the Prime Minister Ana Brnabic. Recovery Data Center in Kragujevac is one more security barrier for our citizens’ data, State and economy and positions Serbia on the map of very few countries with the centers for data savings of this kind. Taking into consideration the fact that Serbia has State Data Center in Belgrade with the data of the ministries, agencies and institutions and that we have e-forms of vitals statistic records, citizenships, E-court, automatic data exchange, E-health records, E- medical prescription, E- kindergarten and other services it is of utmost importance to safely keep the data of our citizens. Due to that the investment into the most modernized and safest data center was strategic decision of the Government of Serbia that enables better and more efficient, safer-government and its prompt development, said the Prime Minister adding that the start of the Recovery Data Center construction is the enormous step forward of Serbia towards positioning of Serbia as country – credible destination for investments.
