Jambo Matunda Nyanchama, You have raised a very important question on information/Data Sovereignty. the question I would beg to ask is how secure are our phone numbers/names/ID numbers/signatures in those MPESA books we sign? some political party officials are harvesting possible party member details from mobile money agents. Regards On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:32 PM, <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke>wrote:
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1. Information/Data Sovereignty (Matunda Nyanchama) 2. Re: Google's Antics on Mocality (lordmwesh) 3. Re: Google's Antics on Mocality (Francis Hook) 4. Re: Google's Antics on Mocality (McTim)
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Friends
This is not to distract from mainstream focus on Vision 2030 discussions and Google antics on Mocality.
However, the above subject came up recently in a conversation we were having at a conference here in Canada. Government here, fearing the US Patriot Act requires that private citizen information (e.g. patient records, financial data and the like) be domiciled within Canadian jurisdiction. And they have a point.
Data will be King in the future and who owns that data would have power.
I am wondering how this concept is playing in Kenya.
What controls (policy, technical and otherwise) have we in place to assure that we don't (as a country) end up paying dearly to access our own data to generate information we need for informed decisions.
Regards.
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