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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Unless of course CBK is hosting and backing up its data overseas as well </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Edwin<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Muchiri Nyaggah<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 05, 2011 12:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> Edwin<br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What's the regulator's (CBK in this case) position on hosting of financial transaction data on overseas servers? <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kind regards,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=left style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=140 valign=top style='width:104.65pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Muchiri</span></strong> Nyaggah<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Director</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>@muchiri</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>+254 722 506400</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Semacraft.com</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=451 valign=top style='width:338.15pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:2.25pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img width=113 height=20 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CBDBAC.EE08E7D0"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Michuki Mwangi <<a href="mailto:michuki@swiftkenya.com">michuki@swiftkenya.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Betty,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:<br>> Thanks Solomon<br>><br>> Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the<br>> connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany<br>> temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the<br>> inconvenience<br>><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><rant><br><br>From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily<br>interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that<br>the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany.<br><br>I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the<br>case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an<br>efficient service for a local service that depends on international<br>connectivity.<br><br></rant><br><br>Michuki.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet" target="_blank">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>This message was sent to: <a href="mailto:muchiri@semacraft.com">muchiri@semacraft.com</a><br>Unsubscribe or change your options at <a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/muchiri%40semacraft.com" target="_blank">http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/muchiri%40semacraft.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>