[kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive

[Muchiri Nyaggah]

What's the regulator's (CBK in this case) position on hosting of financial
transaction data on overseas servers?


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*Muchiri* Nyaggah

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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com>wrote:

>
> Betty,
>
> On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
> > Thanks Solomon
> >
> > Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the
> > connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany
> > temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the
> > inconvenience
> >
>
> <rant>
>
> From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily
> interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that
> the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany.
>
> I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the
> case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an
> efficient service for a local service that depends on international
> connectivity.
>
> </rant>
>
> Michuki.
>
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