<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Engineer,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Please forgive the innumerable links in this response.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">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 <a href="http://go.ke">go.ke</a> contracts would they not have to list (IPO) to fund expansion? <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Why are Africans expected to be so mediocre so as not to require or prioritize data localization?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Factoring Kenya is part of a war zone, is data localization/latency (especially for emergency services) negotiable?</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001299117/police-alert-al-shabaab-planning-major-attack-along-kenya-somalia-border">https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001299117/police-alert-al-shabaab-planning-major-attack-along-kenya-somalia-border</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://ntv.nation.co.ke/news/2720124-4804978-yxgoj6/index.html">https://ntv.nation.co.ke/news/2720124-4804978-yxgoj6/index.html</a> </div><div dir="ltr"> <br></div><div dir="ltr">Terror’s highway: 115km highway rendered impassable by Al Shabaab militants</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://www.crn.com.au/news/global-data-warehouse-snowflake-expands-reach-with-sydney-deployment-473217">https://www.crn.com.au/news/global-data-warehouse-snowflake-expands-reach-with-sydney-deployment-473217</a><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>"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."</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ukfast.co.uk/emergency-services.html">https://www.ukfast.co.uk/emergency-services.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div></div><div><a href="https://www.ukfast.co.uk/press-releases/cabinet-office-renews-emergency-response-contract-with-ukfast.html">https://www.ukfast.co.uk/press-releases/cabinet-office-renews-emergency-response-contract-with-ukfast.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 6:23 PM John Kariuki via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>Grace, listers. <div id="m_3371035523035337943yMail_cursorElementTracker_1539616203994">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. </div><div id="m_3371035523035337943yMail_cursorElementTracker_1539616864296"><br></div><div id="m_3371035523035337943yMail_cursorElementTracker_1539616864585">John Kariuki. <br><div id="m_3371035523035337943ymail_android_signature"><a href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0"> <div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#6d00f6"> <div>On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:59, Grace Githaiga via kictanet</div><div><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6"> <div id="m_3371035523035337943yiv3314565807">
<div><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Major firms have opposed proposals to limit how they use personal data from millions of Kenyans, threatening the implementation of robust data protection laws. </span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Read more at: </span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001298938/companies-fight-to-retain-hold-on-customers-data" style="color:rgb(51,122,183);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001298938/companies-fight-to-retain-hold-on-customers-data</a><br>
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