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itself provides more value for money. Through this agreement, Government will be able to work seamlessly between its various departments, something which is in line with Government’s National Strategy. Finally, Mr Sultana said that this agreement will also help start-ups and will provide opportunities for training and mentorship.

MITA’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr Ivan Alessandro gave more details about the work undertaken by the specialised team to prepare for the best partnership agreement with Microsoft. While explaining that a period of five years gives financial stability to the agreement, Mr Alessandro said that this provided MITA with better rates, together with access to professional consultancy from Microsoft to continue with the implementation of the Digital Strategy.

Mr Alessandro also said that MITA managed to increase its license base by around 20% which made this agreement more valuable for the money spent, through the additional licences and services which were obtained.

Addressing the press conference, Enterprise and Partner Group Manager of Microsoft Malta, Reuben Caruana said that Microsoft feels satisfied in extending its collaboration with MITA and the Maltese Government. Mr Caruana said that Microsoft will continue to strengthen its collaboration through the Microsoft Innovation Centre, which collaboration had already started in the previous agreement. He also said that start-up companies will benefit from free software and cloud services for a period of three years through the BizSpark initiative. Start-ups will also benefit from loaning of devices and ongoing mentoring for cloud and mobile app development.