[kictanet] Cable issues

Sun Nov 8 15:47:56 EAT 2009

We share our maps with TKL, the Municipalities, the Chiefs, the MoR, MoW 

It takes WILLINGNESS to use the information!

The procedure needs to be changed anyway. How come that another operator
might still share with the OLD STATE OWNED ENTITIES but not with someone
like KDN?

How come we show our maps to our competitor but they don’t show their maps
to us?

Private companies still receive a second class treatment!

Kai

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[mailto:kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] Im
Auftrag von Barrack Otieno
Gesendet: Sunday, November 08, 2009 15:37
An: kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Betreff: Re: [kictanet] Cable issues

Greetings Eric,

Thanks for your enlightening comments, the biggest challenge is that the
kind of Information you are sharing should be availed at all levels in
Society, at Chiefs Baraza's, Churches, anywhere where people congregate and
can be educated since knowledge is power, looking through the eight sectors
i can only say we are  too  ignorant, in short we must marshal resources and
educate the public on the issues you have mentioned,  Mulika Mwizi might
help but  it could be a short term measure, i was once taught that "he who
knows why is always at the mercy of he who knows how", if we addressed the
way we would not have situations where technicians from competing companies
mess each others cables as i got it from Kai's post.
Awareness is Key

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Eric Aligula <jairah at kippra.or.ke> wrote:

Just to expand the discourse on the cable issues and place it into some
wider perspective. As far back as 1997, the US Government identified eight
sectors it deemed critical to the national security and the essential
functioning of its economy. These were:

1. Telecommunications
2. Transportation
3. Water supply
4. Oil and gas production
5. Banking and finance
6. Electrical generation
7. Emergency services, and
8. Essential government functions

A President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection ("PCCIP") in
October 1997, highlighted the topic of critical infrastructures and made a
series of specific recommendations for their protection.

What does this have to do with the issue of “cut cables”? At the height of
the post election violence and in some incidents thereafter, the movement of
produce and goods in Kenya became a serious issue.  In fact as a
consequence, ALL of the neighbouring countries are actively identifying and
developing alternative access routes for their products and services.  Kenya
Vision 2030 is predicated on an export led growth strategy that is and will
be heavily dependent not only on networked transport services, but also on
the fibre optic cable.  The investment in transport and ICT infrastructure
are premised on the desire to establish Kenya as the region's preeminent
communications hub.  The assurance that Kenya can and will consistent,
reliable and affordable access to these critical infrastructures is critical
to achieving these goals.

It is thus important that players in the ICT Sector team up with other
sectors to insist on the development of a national, perhaps East African
wide Critical Infrastructure Protection Policy complete with accompanying
reviews and enhancements in the legal and institutional frameworks.  It is
the only consistent way through which we shall be able to ensure security
for investments so expensively and patiently built. 

A piecemeal approach will work for a short while and we shall be
firefighting to eternity.  The effort should focus on a comprehensive
intervention, while obviously dealing with the issues in the short term.

My two cents worth.

Kind regards

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: kai wulff [mailto:kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke]
Sent: Fri 06/11/2009 22:14
To: Eric Aligula
Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
Subject: AW: [kictanet] Cable issues

It would help if we could get our day in court. Vandalism is one thing,
negligence another. We as Operators spend huge amounts on staff we attach to
contractors to make sure they don't destroy our cable plant .. If they do,
we never get compensated. Taking them to court takes years and you might
only get awarded the cost of the cable plus the labor ..

Frustrated

Kai

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

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[mailto:kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] Im

Auftrag von jairah at kippra.or.ke
Gesendet: Friday, November 06, 2009 20:40
An: kai.wulff at kdn.co.ke

Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions

Betreff: Re: [kictanet] Cable issues

Colleagues

What I would suggest is to have a law to protect critical infrastructure
from vagabonds such as those that destroy cables and other infrastructure
that we need to sustain the enabling environment for doing business. The
penalties this guys receive are a joke and the law needs to target the
entire value chain, at least on the Kenyan perhaps East African side.

Kind regards

Eric Aligula
Sent from my BlackBerry®

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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:07:21
To: <jairah at kippra.or.ke>
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Subject: [kictanet] Cable issues

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