The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Ministry for Information and Communications Technology is hereby directing for the implementation of National Executive Council (NEC) Decision No. 39/2021, which endorses that all sovereign data be stored and processed in one secure platform environment. This decision is consistent with the industry best practices and the Government’s cloud-first approach for the secure and cost-effective digital delivery of government services.
Based on this NEC decision, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is now coordinating a whole of government approach to cloud services. All agencies are to now recognize this position made by the NEC.
As part of phase one implementation, I am hereby advising all national departments, agencies, provincial and sub-national entities to submit details of their engaged ICT vendors, cloud service providers and further declare where these specific services are hosted.
Declarations can be submitted via email on Shared.Services@ict.gov.pg by Friday 25 February 2022 at 4:06 pm.
Further coordination and implementation are to be made by the Department of Information and Communications Technology.
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