[kictanet] Freedom of information and data protection bills.

[Paul Kukubo]

Listers

AS I write this I am sitting in a forum organized by the ISACA Kenya
Chapter to discuss these two draft  bills.  At this meeting we have a
representative from CIC. The draft bills are on the CIC website.

Listers should be made aware of this process which is important as part of
the constitutional implementation. When the act is passed it will improved
our profile as a destination for data processing.  As we speak there is a
proposal in the EU law that would make it illegal for data to flow to
countries that don't have data protection in place. This has several
implications.

Also, in a networked world, analyst indicate that the end game will be that
there will be global centers of excellence in data processing. Indeed
multinationals are consolidating data centres globally.

Submissions have been made by national council for law reporting, CIC,
Kenya bankers association.

Regards
Paul Kukubo




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