[kictanet] It's the simple things, NDOCKenya

[Kivuva]

999 used to be soo effective, but I think death of the telephone booth
did it in.

But recently I find that 999 to be stable. At least it works on my
Safaricom line

On 27/09/2013, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:
> Call me crazy but I'd vote for an emergency number to reach the police,
> fire department, and ambulance system over a functioning website.  I would
> have thought that at least the members of KICTanet would agree with that
> but based on the other thread, even a phone number seems too much and we
> should leverage 'community' when there's an emergency.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number#Africa
>
>
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>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:24 PM, John Kariuki <
> ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Eric,Listers.
>> The matter raised is urgent.The ICT Cabinet Secretary could probably take
>> it as a matter of national importance.
>>
>> John Kariuki
>>
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>>  *From:* Erik Hersman <erik at zungu.com>
>> *To:* ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk
>> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, 26 September 2013, 9:23
>> *Subject:* [kictanet] It's the simple things, NDOCKenya
>>
>> I realized the other day that the Kenya National Disaster Operations
>> Center (known to us as @NDOCKenya <https://twitter.com/ndockenya> on
>> Twitter) doesn't have even a simple website up.  If they didn't have a
>> Twitter handle, no one would even know how to reach them or get any
>> updates
>> from them at all.   On their Twitter profile they list the following:
>>
>> *The Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre manages and coordinates
>> disaster response at a national level. Email info at ndockenya.org Call
>> +254-020-2212386*
>>
>> * Nairobi, Kenya *
>>
>> *· ** ** nationaldisaster.go.ke  <http://t.co/9dWdiHpAbE>*
>>
>>
>> Now, you'll note three things:
>>
>>
>>    1. The website doesn't work.  There is absolutely nothing, it's just a
>>    dead page.
>>    2. The email address goes to NDOCKenya.org <http://ndockenya.org/> -
>>    but if you go there, you'll find it's just being hosted at GoDaddy
>> with
>>    nothing to show.  This raises a bunch of questions, but perhaps the
>>    foremost being: Why do they use this as their email address when they
>> own a
>>    go.ke domain?
>>    3. A way to reach the *NATIONAL* Disaster Ops Centre is a pretty
>>    important thing to have.  It's unforgivable that they can't even put up
>> a
>>    one-page information website, much less have a site that allows people
>> to
>>    know the official places to go, things to do/not do, during a national
>>    emergency.
>>
>>
>> It's the simple things.
>>
>> --
>> Erik Hersman
>>
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