<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Lawrence<div><br></div><div>We certainly do. </div><div><br></div><div>My main worry, which should be the worry for many in the sector is simply this:-</div><div><br></div><div>South Africa is currently enjoying a near monopoly when it comes to setting up serious globally competitive data centers. I understand Microsoft and Amazon already have or are in the process of doing so. While there are other factors to consider like infrastructure (electricity, connectivity etc) serious investors won’t even bother if there are no strong policy framework to support this. One of the frameworks is a solid data protection and security law.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards </div><div><br><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 10 Jan 2018, at 3:36 PM, Lawrence Dinga, CISSP via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Georgia">Wow!</font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Georgia">According the data from UNCTAD </font><a href="http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DTL/STI_and_ICTs/ICT4D-Legislation/eCom-Data-Protection-Laws.aspx"><font size="3" face="Georgia">Website</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Georgia"> 23
(43%) African countries have put in place comprehensive privacy and data
protection laws. Kenya led by CIPIT contested the adoption of the </font><font face="Georgia"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">AU
Convention on cyber security and data protection in 2014 and lobbied other
Member States to reject it.</span> Does it mean that up to now we don’t even
have anything in the kitchen? </font><font face="Georgia">I understand the data
protection bill 2009 was copied verbatim from the EU Directive 95/46/EC on the
Protection of Personal Data which is being replaced by the GDPR as from May
2018. Don’t you think we need to do something in the absence of anything
cooking?</font></font></div>
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<div><font size="3" face="Georgia">Regards</font></div>
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<div><strong><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" face="Georgia">Lawrence Dinga, MSc.
(InfoSec & Forensics), CISSP</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" face="Georgia">Managecom Systems
Ltd</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt" face="Georgia">+254 721226324/
0733973999</font></strong></div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="info@campusciti.com" href="mailto:info@campusciti.com">Admin CampusCiti</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 10, 2018 3:09 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions</a>
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<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="ldinga@managecom.co.ke" href="mailto:ldinga@managecom.co.ke">Lawrence Dinga, CISSP</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] Data Protection Bill</div></div></div>
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think the bill lapsed?
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<div>It should be a critically bill to be passed. I’m hoping that the community
can review this bill again and possibly make representations to the house.</div>
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<div>Regards <br><br>
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no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div>
<div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373)"><br></span></div>Sent
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<div>Could someone kindly provide me with a link to the Privacy and Data
Protection Bill? I read somewhere from this forum that it is in Parliament
awaiting to be passed.</div>
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<div>Thanks </div>
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Forensics), CISSP</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Managecom Systems
Ltd</font></strong></div>
<div><strong><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">+254 721226324/
0733973999</font></strong></div>
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