[kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

[Francis Hook]

When a ship anchor severs a submarine cable...it matters - esp when/if a
provider does not have redundancy.    If hosted locally, then services stay
up.   of course we have our own cable cuts but we could work around them
easier than intl cuts.   My two cowries.

On 11 July 2011 16:06, Rad! <conradakunga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good people,
>
> Sometimes we insist on seeing the trees at the expense of seeing the
> forest.
>
> In the larger scheme of things, where does it matter where the data is
> hosted? Is this more of a consideration than the availability of the data?
> Does it really matter that the data is in Seattle, Sears, Seaton or Senna?
> Does this in any way hinder our access to it?
>
>
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Francis Hook
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