[kictanet] CCK PUSHES LOCAL FIRMS TO HOST WEBSITES LOCALLY

[Walubengo J]

@WhiteAfrican,

I do get your message.  But your language might be considered too strong by @BlackAfrican standard and folks may take offense. Check Ali's post on the same - same message, different words :-) 

That said, I think the King @CCK has been caught "naked".    Maybe the planned regulation is to make ALL GOVERNMENT data local (which is within the government/regulatory scope to make the call). Or maybe he was misquoted, or maybe I might be trying to hard to do the PR job for CCK... 

@Wambua, you have off late gone completely underground? 

walu.
nb: the benefit of local hosting within the context of cybersecurity was argued on a 1-on-1 between me and Sammy B and we came to some consensus :- that local hosting does give local enforcement (police, prosecution, judiciary) some teeth...and by extension this in itself can act as deterrent against would-be cybercriminals.

I however dont think that this should  lead to a decree that everyone MUST host locally because then I will have to give up my jwalu at yahoo.com mail account to avoid hosting my mails abroad :-)


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On Wed, 11/27/13, Erik Hersman <erik at zungu.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [kictanet] CCK PUSHES LOCAL FIRMS TO HOST WEBSITES LOCALLY
 To: jwalu at yahoo.com
 Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
 Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 4:41 PM
 
 This is the kind of
 stupidity that makes you wonder if the people dealing with
 the internet regulations and policy at CCK even know what
 the internet is. 
 
 
 -- 
 Erik Hersman
 
 Ushahidi | iHub | BRCK at WhiteAfrican
 
 On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Rad!
 <conradakunga at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 Absolutely absurd if this is in
 fact true.
 How does hosting sites locally mitigated against
 cybercrime?
 
 What business does anyone have dictating to me
 where i can and can't host my websites?
 
 
 On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at
 6:35 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke>
 wrote:
 
 Listers
 
 The Communications
 Commission of Kenya has proposed a licensing condition that
 may compel Internet service providers (ISPs) to bring
 websites hosted offshore back to the country in the fight
 against cyber crime...
 
 http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/CCK-pushes-firms-to-host-websites-locally-in-new-rules/-/539550/2089412/-/15ly5o1z/-/index.html
 
 I sincerely hope that the DG was
 somehow misquoted on this story. Whilst its a good idea to
 host sites locally this in no way stops cybercrime or
 mitigates it. Infact with the rudimentary security
 infrastructure most providers have I will be loath to host
 any site locally leave alone an Ecommerce one
 locally.
 
 Can government please focus on
 legislation and regulation instead of butting into my
 business and telling me where I should host my website??
  
 
 Ali Hussein
 
 +254 0770 906375 / 0713
 601113
 "I fear the day technology will
 surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation
 of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein
 
 Sent from my iPad
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