[kictanet] It's the simple things, NDOCKenya

Fri Sep 27 10:01:59 EAT 2013

Adam, that's one of the simple things too.  Yes, it takes money and commitment to run a national 999 number, but that's what the NDOC is for.  

What I'm getting at is there are a lot of simple things that could be done, a lot of low hanging fruit that would make both communications and organization easier in an emergency.

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On Sep 27, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:

> Wait.  Are you saying that if I call 999 somebody will answer and that I can report emergencies to them???  Will they dispatch police and/or ambulances?
> 
> Everybody I had talked to said that wasn't possible.
> 
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> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >>
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