[kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

[Ali Hussein]

Lucy

All I can say is - We live in a Global Village.  

I honestly believe that this is a wake-up call for Local Service Providers. However in defence of them the investment required to set up and run a Rackspace calibre service is huge...but so are the returns... So my question to us in the private sector is who will step up? Or should we wait for the Min of Info-comm to lead the way like they did with the undersea cable?   

Do I hear KDN; Wananchi; Safaricom; Airtel; Orange et al pick up the gauntlet? 

Ali Hussein - Sent from my BlackBerry®

-----Original Message-----
From: Lucy Kimani <lkimani at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:28:47 
To: info at alyhussein.com<info at alyhussein.com>
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Open Data - Where does it sit?

All I will one up on Francis and Ali why wouldn't a Google for example not have dedicated IDCs built in Kenya considering said centers could then serve east africa and yes it does matter where the data is hosted legally if such data were to be subpoenaed for whatever reason then if hosted in US they would have to be produced hence implications of jurisdiction matter in that the datacenter is located within US jurisdiction and must therefore abide by the laws.

LK

On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:57 AM, "Ali Hussein" <info at alyhussein.com> wrote:

> My two cowries (to quote Francis :) ) :-
> 
> Why not mirror the service locally? That way we get the best of two worlds...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ali Hussein - Sent from my BlackBerry®
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