“We ought to replace google servers with local servers”- Potraz DG 

The Postal and Telecommunications  Regulatory Authority  of Zimbabwe (Potraz) Director  General DR Gift Kalisto Machengete has urged content creators to consider replacing google  servers with local servers in order to promote hosting of local content locally.

Speaking in his  key opening address in Kadoma during the engagement of Potraz -ZOCC engagement meeting on Friday, the Director General urged content creators to consider making use of local servers to tame local content for high  quality inbound traffic and less exportation of data

“Local content creation brings about new opportunities for local content  hosting and  creating  local internet  traffic.  We ought to replace google  servers with local servers as we move towards the hosting of local content locally. We have so much good content created by Zimbabweans with millions  of hits,  but all this content is  hosted internationally, yet there is provision to do so locally,” he said. 

 Machengete further stated that the meeting was important as it creates a launch pad for strategising on how to “convert Community Information Centres into hubs for such progressive local content”. 

“We are all gathered here to see how best we can leverage on the artistic prowess of content creators to create and disseminate local content which benefits our communities – content which contributes meaningfully to national development starting with the grassroots – content which promotes government’s devolution agenda – content which creates employment and contributes to the digital economy,” Said Machengete

“We are all gathered here to strategise on how best we can convert Community Information Centres into hubs for such progressive local content,” he added.

Machengete said that the workshop will touch on the advantages of local content in local languages and Government’s expectations in terms of local content for Community Information Centres, Community Networks, Schools and other facilities where Internet can be accessed.