[kictanet] Companies fight to retain hold on customers’ data Read more at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001298938/companies-fight-to-retain-hold-on-customers-data

Tue Oct 16 16:07:14 EAT 2018

Lilian 

Thanks so much for sharing the link. But niko na swali.  Is this
correct that a  one day conference package is Kes 20,000?  Is this
amount not on the higher side for a government summit?  Please
clarify. 

Best regards

Githaiga, Grace

On Tuesday, 16-10-2018 at 09:27 Lilian Kimeto via kictanet wrote:

Dear Listers,The conversation around data protection will feature at
Connected Summit.

Please plan to be there by registering on www.connected.go.ke [1]

Regards,
Lilian Kimeto
The ICT Authority

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 09:17 Barrack Otieno via kictanet  wrote:

Muraya,

The onus is on the Kenyan ICT Community to ensure this data protection
conversation does not become elitist. It may just stiffle innovation
which is not what we want. We have thousands of mobile money agents
who basically fall under SME's, this are the guys who will be affected
the most. That said, we have to start somewhere.

Regards

On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:17 S.M. Muraya via kictanet,  wrote:

Engineer,

Please forgive the innumerable links in this response.

Foreign firms which cannot invest + trust in local talent have no
business being here. State officials who have sold out to foreign
firms have nothing to show at the NSE. Apart from Safaricom, which
technology firm has listed since 2008? If local/genuine IT firms were
winning go.ke [2] contracts would they not have to list (IPO) to fund
expansion?  

Why are Africans expected to be so mediocre so as not to require or
prioritize data localization?

Factoring Kenya is part of a war zone, is data localization/latency
(especially for emergency services) negotiable?

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001299117/police-alert-al-shabaab-planning-major-attack-along-kenya-somalia-border

https://ntv.nation.co.ke/news/2720124-4804978-yxgoj6/index.html 

Terror’s highway: 115km highway rendered impassable by Al Shabaab
militants

https://www.crn.com.au/news/global-data-warehouse-snowflake-expands-reach-with-sydney-deployment-473217

He added that Australia had become a major market for cloud providers,
citing Microsoft and Amazon Web Services' local data centres, adding
that data sovereignty and latency are of top priority.

"By providing an Australian deployment, Snowflake enables customers
with Australian data to keep that information close to home,” Muglia
added. “They now have more control over their data and how they
comply with Australian data protection regulations."

https://www.ukfast.co.uk/emergency-services.html

Our data centres are approved as Police Assured Server Facilities
(PASF) with connectivity to the private networks used by all the
emergency services including HSCN, PSN, PSN for Policing and the
Internet, from a full data centre colocation move to trialling the
latest technologies to help plan and respond to emergencies.

With services already being supplied to a number of forces including
the Met Police and the National Crime Agency (NCA) our credibility to
deliver the benefits of cloud services to the required standards is
well established. 

https://www.ukfast.co.uk/press-releases/cabinet-office-renews-emergency-response-contract-with-ukfast.html

Following an open tender competition through the Digital Marketplace,
the Cabinet Office has signed a renewed contract with UKFast’s
public sector department for the delivery of a private cloud platform
for ResilienceDirect, which supports effective response to incidents
like natural disasters, terror attacks and power outages.

The secure platform delivers a suite of capabilities to prepare,
exercise, respond and recover, supporting a co-ordinated and efficient
response linking the national tier Government Departments COBR and the
local emergency services working collaboratively with local councils,
utility providers and many other sectors.

The British hosting firm won the initial two-year contact in 2016 and
the extension gives the Cabinet Office access to UKFast’s industry
leading government hosting services and round-the-clock support for
another year, with the option of a further year’s extension.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 6:23 PM John Kariuki via kictanet  wrote:

Grace, listers. That approach will ultimately certainly fail because
Data Protection is not just a local matter. It is an international
matter whose underlying theme is privacy. The subject of privacy has
been substantially ventilated by UN, EU and even AU. The legal basis
is quite solid and is unlikely to be shaken by private interests. In
any case, even if a weak law is passed, it will certainly fail the
"Adequacy Test" and will quickly be amended. 

John Kariuki. 
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  On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:59, Grace Githaiga via kictanet
 wrote:

Major firms have opposed proposals to limit how they use personal data
from millions of Kenyans, threatening the implementation of robust
data protection laws. 

The companies, including multinationals want unfettered access to the
data they have on their customers, some of which may have been
collected without users’ knowledge.
Read more
at: https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001298938/companies-fight-to-retain-hold-on-customers-data

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Githaiga, Grace

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