[kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

[Harry Delano]

Hello...
 
For beginners this effort is quite laudable.
 
However, it will be quite reassuring to know that this data, which will keep
growing as time goes is 
ultimately under safe custody of the said host, since we do not physically
control the infrastructure. 
 
Being a sensitive site it is, and with the high stakes attached to our
national pride,  I suggest security 
be tightened a lot on it so that we do not start seeing some potshots aimed
at it, from the likes of Lulzec...
 
And again, it will be good to load balance the site on a number of servers,
across the internet cloud..
 
We can mirror locally, also.
 
Harry
 

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From: kictanet-bounces+harry=comtelsys.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
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Behalf Of Francis Hook
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 4:14 PM
To: harry at comtelsys.co.ke
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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