Unless of course CBK is hosting and backing up its data overseas as well J Edwin From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Muchiri Nyaggah Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 12:20 PM To: Edwin Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Bob Collymore; Yet to arrive What's the regulator's (CBK in this case) position on hosting of financial transaction data on overseas servers? Kind regards, Muchiri Nyaggah Director @muchiri +254 722 506400 Semacraft.com On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote: Betty, On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:
Thanks Solomon
Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the inconvenience
From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that
<rant> the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany. I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an efficient service for a local service that depends on international connectivity. </rant> Michuki. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: muchiri@semacraft.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/muchiri%40semacraft.com
