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Chinese government donates equipment to Sudan's Africa City of Technology Advanced Computing Center

Commitment Year•2012Country of Activity•SudanSector•CommunicationsFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Feb 19, 2012
Start (actual)
Jul 3, 2012
End (actual)
Dec 12, 2012

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The purpose of the project is to donate equipment to Sudan's Africa City of Technology Advanced Computing Center. More detailed location information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3851428

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Implementing agencies

Private Sector

  • Inspur

Loan desecription

Chinese government donates equipment to Sudan's Africa City of Technology Advanced Computing Center

Narrative

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Project narrative

On February 15 and 19, 2012, Chinese and Sudanese officials signed letters of exchange to provide a set of equipment for the Advanced Computing Center (ACT) at the African City of Technology in Khartoum to help promote the development of information technology in Sudan (中国援苏丹非洲科技城超级计算中心设备项目). On July 3, 2012, an agreement between the Advanced Computing Center at the African City of Technology and Chinese technology company Inspur was signed for Inspur to implement the project. The Chinese Minister of Commerce reported that the equipment was officially handed over to Sudan on December 12, 2012. According to Shandong International Contract Association(SICA), the supercomputing center project was officially started in December 12, 2012. The value of the equipment is unknown.