[kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

[Edwin Onchari]

My greatest concern is, we do have local cloud services providers in Kenya,
at least on paper - and it could have been an excellent marketing
opportunity for them to showcase their capabilities by hosting the data. In
this case, if it were a local that was hosting the data and the tracert had
shown failure at the 12th hop, we'd all be on their case. That said, I still
appreciate hugely the effort in making the data accessible.

 

Edwin

From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of Francis Hook
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 4:14 PM
To: Edwin
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

 

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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