Ebene () is a suburb of

Quatre Bornes Quatre Bornes () also known as ''La Ville des Fleurs'' (The City of Flowers), is a town in Mauritius, located in the Plaines Wilhems District, the western part also lies in the Rivière Noire District. The town is administered by the Municipal ...

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, south of the capital,

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. Construction began in November 2001, with the suburb being promoted as a new

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of Data (computing), data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information te ...

hub for Mauritius and as a link between

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n and

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n markets. The aim being to create a

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office area in order to dynamise the country. As a result, it is also referred to as Ebene Cybercity or Cyber City.

Ebene Cyber City

Mauritius Research and Innovation Council has a centre at Ebene where it has a ground station for its satellite MIR-SAT1. Mauritius Metro is being expanded to Ebene.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower

The Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower (formerly Cyber Tower One) is a 12-storey, 72-metre-tall commercial building located in Ebene Cybercity. The blue glass and grey stone building has been awarded the “Intelligent Building of the Year” by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), USA in 2005. Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower

Completed in a period of 18 months, the tower is a fully air-conditioned building with a surface area of 42,275 square metres.

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's prime minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the Ebene Cyber Tower One in 2005. Ebene Cyber Tower hosts the

AFRINIC AFRINIC (African Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa. Its headquarters are in Ebene, Mauritius. Before AFRINIC was formed, IP addresses (IPv6 and IPv4) for Africa were distributed by the Asia-Pacific N ...

, the Internet registry for

. Initially named Cyber Tower One, since 16 January 2019 the tower bears the name of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In the year 2000, the foundation of a strategic partnership between

and

in the ICT sector was laid between the then

Prime Minister of Mauritius The prime minister of Mauritius (french: link=no, Premier Ministre de Maurice) is the head of government of Mauritius. He presides over the Cabinet of Ministers, which advises the president of the country and is collectively responsible to the ...

and Atal Bihari Vajpayee during his visit to

. A line of credit of 100 million dollars was signed for the setting up of the first state-of-the-art ICT infrastructure in

. Currently, the Cyber City is home to more than 350 companies, employing more than 30,000 people.

Ebene Cyber City

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Tower

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