The Government Online Centre (GOC) is the centralised data centre to provide Government services to citizen, business persons, government officers and non-citizens abroad. Operational since May 2005, the GOC is managed by the National Computer Board (NCB). The GOC was designed to be equipped with state-of-the-art IT infrastructure to enable IT optimisation in the public sector while at the same time providing comprehensive information on government services and enabling online applications on a 24x7 basis in a user-friendly and fully secured manner through the Government Web Portal (www.gov.mu).