[kictanet] Government Websites down - again?

[Walubengo J]

@Murigi,

Good question - but ofcourse no answers.  If the routing, dns and hosting plans were done with the Kenyan IXP in mind, Government of Kenya Services/content would not be bothered by TEAMS, SEACOM or any other International Link going down. Unfortunately, it appears each ministry does its own design/thing (if you are techie you can actually see this by running tests against their servers/domain names).

For me, i think the challenge is not at a technical level (governments globally can afford, train and retains some of the best brains), I believe it is an institutional and cultural challenge where each Ministry believes its has to retain control over its own infrastructure, its own applications, personnel and perhaps more importantly its own IT budgets.  This type of thinking is Government version 0 (pre-google).

Today progressive governments are talking Government 2.0 or Connected Government, where you move beyond ministry websites running in isolated mode towards a single portal or gateway to government services that floats on a shared info-structure and infra-structure.

And guess what is todays memo - I learnt all this  from the Kenyan eGovt Secretariat and ICT Board five years ago!.

walu.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
To: Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> 
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Government Websites down - again?
 

Walu,
Happy New Year :)
Sounds like January financial afflictions are with many of us :)
Can someone explain why "TEAMS" would affect local loop networks?
Surely "Go.Ke" servers must be on local networks even if there are international backups/instances of Go.KE PUBLIC Content.
(:
On Jan 7, 2013 1:01 PM, "Walubengo J" <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

Sorry @Paul  K,  @Ndemo and @Kate Gitau to pick on you early in the year, but it looks like I cannot reach most of the government site (www.xxx.go.ke) 
>
>
>
>I quick ping to the following fails:
>
>http://www.ict.go.ke/  (ICT Board site down)
>
>
>
>or 
>
>http://www.information.go.ke/ (Ministry of Info and communication site down).
>
>
>Rumour has it that it has something to do with the TEAMs cable undergoing scheduled maintenance. Pliz ?!!??...
>
>
>But thank heavens our Money minting machine below has somehow managed to stay up :-)
>
>
>
>http://www.kra.go.ke/  (Kenya Revenue up)
>
>
>even though its parent ministry is down :-(
>
>
>
>http://www.treasury.go.ke/  (Ministry of FInance down)
>
>
>
>Ok, could someone remind me why we are the best ICT destination in East Africa and the future mother of Silicon Savannah/Konza CIty when we cannot design redundancy within our government networks? 
>
>
>
>We have guys on this list who can design redundancy for free - me included. But since it is election time, why cant my good friend Dr. Ndemo just put up an international tender for this work :-)  and then I can apply from  which Island was it again? -Cayman Island or something? 
>
>
>
>walu.
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>kictanet mailing list
>kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
>https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet
>
>Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/murigi.muraya%40gmail.com
>
>The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development.
>
>KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/attachments/20130107/6801b8a8/attachment.htm>