Senegal Numerique SA and APIX, the agency responsible for promoting investments and major state works, signed two memorandums of understanding this Friday, January 13, 2023; the aim being to modernize the Agency's information system and appropriately manage its data while expanding its scope of intervention in Senegal and online through Senegal Services. 

There is a long tradition of collaboration that links Senegal Numerique SA and APIX SA. And the two companies are determined to continue this pooling of investments in the digital field. This memorandum of understanding has just been signed by the two General Directors, Abdoulaye Baldé and Cheikh Bakhoum in order to consolidate a fruitful and lasting partnership.

This was the opportunity for the CEO of APIX SA to announce a visit by his company to the headquarters of Senegal Numérique SA at the Technopôle and the Diamniadio Datacenter. The objective, announced Mr. Baldé, is to “migrate APIX data into this Datacenter as planned in the protocol and in accordance with the desire of the Head of State to promote the digital sovereignty of Senegal”. He also expressed his wish to make APIX SA available in all departments via the network of 45 Senegal Services spaces of Senegal digital SA. 

After welcoming the expertise of APIX SA in the conduct of major state works, the CEO of Senegal Numérique SA, for his part, welcomed the approach of his counterpart who decided, through this partnership, to concentrate on the core business of APIX SA, namely major works and investments, and chooses SENUM SA for improving its connectivity and for better rationalization of its digital resources.

In addition to hosting and the provision of digital services, the partnership will also focus on “Evaluation of the IT ecosystem, Planning of new resources on the Digitalization and security of information systems, support for “interoperability of investment platforms, training and finally the ecologically rational management of waste from electronic and electrical equipment,” said Mr. Bakhoum.

APIX SA and Senegal Numérique SA (ADIE at the time) had to collaborate within the framework of the dematerialization of the building authorization procedure and other town planning procedures. A project which contributed to Senegal's good ranking in Doing Business during the previous decade.