Google Cloud revealed on Tuesday that they have stuck a deal with the Central American nation of El Salvador to further make the nation a digital hub for the region of the world, by managing and digitizing the government’s public services. El Salvador is set to become the first South American nation to do this.
This 7-year strategic partnership, according to Google, “plans to establish a legal entity and a Google Cloud office in the Republic of El Salvador, initiate a Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) instance for the country, which will bring infrastructure closer to where El Salvador’s data is generated, and set up a Cloud Center of Excellence to offer technical guidance to businesses and organizations on how to achieve the greatest benefits from cloud technology and innovations,” the tech giant wrote in their press release.
This deal will cover three main tenets:
- Digital government: Google Cloud will be El Salvador’s strategic innovation partner, helping to securely digitize government processes and projects, including electronic invoicing, permitting, and other initiatives. El Salvador will be using Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) as the foundation for this transformation. GDC is a portfolio of hardware and software solutions that extend Google Cloud’s infrastructure and services anywhere – to a customer’s own data center or locally at the edge – meeting El Salvador’s regulatory and connectivity requirements while still allowing the government to take full advantage of all the benefits of cloud services. Google Cloud’s delivery of GDC in El Salvador makes it the first Latin American government to benefit from this powerful cloud technology.
- Healthcare: To support the country’s efforts to deliver world-class healthcare to residents, El Salvador has chosen to incorporate Google Cloud’s AI technologies to assist medical doctors with access to real-time information to improve the experience and health of people – including entire communities – across the country.
- Education: A commitment to implement a unified Education Data Platform, providing administrators, educators, parents and public education leadership the capabilities to receive timely, efficient and consistent information. This announcement advances the country’s modernization efforts that began in 2021, when El Salvador’s Education Ministry and the country’s Department of Innovation adopted Google Workspace as its main collaboration platform for 83 government agencies and more than 1.5 million students and teachers. As a result, Google for Education is now the primary learning platform for the entire national education system.
El Salvador is moving forward. We believe technology and foreign investment are key for development. We are quickly becoming a hub for innovation.
This groundbreaking alliance with Google Cloud opens unprecedented avenues for innovation, economic growth, and enhanced public services. Google’s global expertise combined with El Salvador’s audacity is set to redefine the technological landscape.
Nayib Bukele, President of the Republic of El Salvador, said
We look forward to working hand-in-hand with El Salvador to foster technological development in Central America.
Access to cloud computing has dramatically expanded across industries and regions throughout the world, enabling both small companies and the public sector to utilize the very same applications and services as more mature markets. Cloud computing can truly transform Latin America, and we look forward to exploring the full potential of those possibilities in El Salvador, benefiting its citizens and boosting economic development.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, said
Coin Telegraph added that the country had already been making strides in adopting cryptocurrency and digital asset acceptance, writing:
The additional GDC infrastructure will also help support El Salvador’s active stance on Bitcoin adoption and integration into society. It allows for Bitcoin full nodes with Ordinal Protocol support.
Additionally, on Aug. 8, El Salvador granted the cryptocurrency exchange Binance a license to offer crypto services to users in the country. Bitcoin has been legal tender there since 2021.
Recently, the Bitcoin Beach initiative took to the classroom and taught over 25,000 students about Bitcoin and helped them earn a “Bitcoin diploma” via the country’s education system.
The country has already seen immediate returns on the program with the example of one teenager who earned the diploma and then returned to his former school to teach educators about the digital asset.
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And that’s all this is; for which could be said for most of the world at this point, that is heavily dominated and influenced by monopolies across all sectors. But now we have Google taking control of and managing people’s the government’s data and public services, which means that they will be further gathering the data of the people also.
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