Data sovereignty in South Africa is not an address

I rarely ever promote a partner sponsored article, but this one does touch on important aspects around data sovereignty which I wished government design-makers better understood. There are numerous risks to data being hosted (held?) in an external data centre, especially if that data centre is foreign owned. Why I posted this, is because I also want to mention what was not said in the article. Access and leaking of the data is one thing, as is the holding of your own encryption keys, but like we saw with the ICC recently, you could be denied access to your data too. But, like with open source software, government IT workers don’t have the budgets or means to market or wine and dine their decision-makers, and persuade them. I’ve seen this battle being lost before with open source software. The software works perfectly well, utilises in-house skills and requires no licensing costs, but those internal IT professionals don’t get to take the CEO out for lunch, nor can they promise the…