[kictanet] Have we failed the nation yet again?

Mon Sep 23 21:01:54 EAT 2013

Sorry,

I cut short my earlier post but the ending should have read...

...I had high hopes that maybe with the new government and centralizing of
ICT under ICT Authority this might actually be a reality soon, but events
of recent past paint a different picture that the only constant in the new
regime is the old-corruption networks!

And what has this corruption cost as previously:
(i)CID Crime Lab. This one was put in abeyance for so long, I last read
that the Cyber Crime Unit has been disbanded)
(ii)Police Communications Networks (This one is in contention after CS
Kimemia stopped it writing thats its overbloated with 'cuts')
(iii)National Intelligence DB (Turf wars can't let it take off)
(iv)Immigration 2nd Generation ID cards (Endless drama, more than 3 tenders
floated, highest bidder to old-boys club not identified yet)
(v)2nd Generation Passports, Dead On Arrival
(vi)50 years after independence we still write OBs by hand. Just how much
intelligence escapes before being mined is mind boggling

If you think about it, if all the above are not currently working or
rendered inoperable, can we actually stop the next Westgate style attack?

Waithaka Ngigi
A1.iO

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Ngigi Waithaka <ngigi at at.co.ke> wrote:

> The tragedy of Westgate is the tragedy of our society. And the tragedy of
> our society is CORRUPTION!
>
> The fact that anyone with a few thousand bob can get a new ID if they
> wanted in a day, double the amount and a passport is a possibility, double
> the amount and you can probably live here for life, double that amount and
> you could possibly be a genocidire and yet have a meaningful existence in
> this country.
>
> Yes, it's not possible to stop every single attack targeted at us, but,
> the tragedy of corruption is that we'll never know whether this is one
> attack we could have stopped from happening.
>
> What can we do as ICT? Forget technology for a moment, that's the obvious
> answer! The more profound answer is, to stop corruption in ICT, which
> unfortunately has been one sector with possibly the highest levels of
> corruption in government (Its only in ICT where to procure goods & services
> worth a Billion shillings you would need a lot more than a god father)
>
> This could set an example to other bodies that we can actually do the
> right thing, as opposed to that which benefits but a few.
>
> Waithaka Ngigi
> A1.iO
>
> I had high hopes that maybe with the new government and centralizing of
> ICT under ICTAuthority this might actually be a reality
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 5:06 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> @Daktari,
>>
>> It is a little difficult to respond when you pull out the patriotism card
>> but that has never been reason enough to keep me quiet.
>>
>> I will first digress, if there was a viral epidemic that killed within a
>> few hours of infection would your advice be for us to wait it out or while
>> curative measures where going on would you also have preventive measures
>> being carried out simultaneously?
>>
>> The KDF are carrying out the curative activity we should be working at
>> preventive measures and having askaris ask people to leave their ID cards
>> at the reception as they enter buildings such as at TelePosta Building does
>> not count.
>>
>> What I want to prevent is the return to lethargy, that we are so famous
>> for, which will creep in soon after the dust settles, what I am doing is
>> throwing stones in the dark to ascertain if there is anyone out there and
>> it seems there is as I got you typing.  I suspect your appearance has
>> something to do with tinted windows on government vehicles do not worry I
>> do not hold it against you it seemed like part of the JD.
>>
>> Like with the 30,000 spectators are a soccer much I do am an expert coach
>> when it comes to criticizing those on the pitch, that does not make me less
>> a supporter and in the same way a player on the pitch does not refuse to
>> listen to the coach because he was not on the pitch, the days of payer
>> coaches are long gone so do not refute my contributions because I am not in
>> the center of the action.
>>
>> If certain resources had been spent on other activities other than
>> android application developments, forcing youth who would rather have been
>> welding wheel borrows to setup Pasha Centers or trying to convert coders
>> into business plan writers maybe, and I stand corrected, a number would
>> have gone into other fields such as security and surveillance.
>>
>> The marine cable brings us a lot of entertainment but it has worked
>> against our search for local applications of broadband and its related
>> applications, I am bitter that we keep bragging of being an ICT enabled
>> society yet all we do is visit social media sites, make payments using
>> mobile money and fete foreign developers who have setup base locally and
>> perform little to no skills transfers.  In terms of usage of technology is
>> like a crutch we do not know how to leverage it, carrying a dual core
>> smartphone does not make you tech savvy.
>>
>> We have failed the country yet again just as we have kept doing over the
>> years.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> "na jivunia kuwa mkenya" - I was in the forefront of the tribeKenya
>> initiative , we gave 610,000 Kenyans the opportunity to respond to the
>> tribe question as "Kenya"
>>
>> Robert Yawe
>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> Kenya
>>
>>
>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>>  *From:* Bitange Ndemo <bitange at jambo.co.ke>
>> *To:* robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
>> *Cc:* bitange at jambo.co.ke; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> *Sent:* Monday, 23 September 2013, 16:07
>>
>> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Have we failed the nation yet again?
>>
>> Robert,
>> There is absolutely nothing anybody will have done with ICTs after the
>> terrorists stormed the Mall.  All IT gadgets worked properly.  CCTV
>> footage is there and was aired on TV yesterday.  The screening askaris had
>> no chance since the assailants forced their way in.
>>
>> Perhaps what we need is more research to mount a camera on a fly (inzi)
>> with night vision to fly carefully within the terrorist hideout and
>> establish strategically on how to respond.  Some flies could be loaded
>> with sleeping gas to put assailants to sleep.  Drones do scan the horizon
>> giving military advance knowledge of the terrain.
>>
>> Right now we should spend a few minutes to praise our uniformed forces.
>> They did a commendable job.  In bitterness I am still proud to be Kenyan.
>>
>>
>> Ndemo.
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As we console all those who where affected by the happenings at the
>> > Westgate Mall over the weekend do we remain blameless as an industry?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Robert Yawe
>> > KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> > Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> > P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> > Kenya
>> >
>> >
>> > Tel: +254722511225,
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>
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