[kictanet] Why State House made a call to Safaricom chief over insecurity

[Ngigi Waithaka]

This is one of those things, with hind sight, either comes out as a stroke
of genius or we get to ask ourselves, what were we thinking!

The difference is in the team that will and/or has already negotiated this
and also will implement this. Get the right people in, we are ok, get
certain characters in, and we've just made new Billionaires.

I would, looking forward, ask how this could lead to a local industry. It
is time Safaricom or GoK pushed money to the local techie community to come
up with solutions that could be used in the security industry.

Let them put out a bounty of Ksh 100M for the three most enterprising
security solutions and you'll see what we could come up with.

As an example, Ma3route, currently just giving you crowd-sourced traffic
updates, with a really good investment, it would be possible to source a
lot more open source intelligence...

Finally, I hope GoK wakes up to the fact to seriously invest in building
local technology firms. Its a lot easier to pull off such similiar deals as
opposed to when you have to go through the RfP route only to get a foreign
firm running your most sensitive of operations.

And for CAK, who thought they would be 'banning' Safaricom for dropping
Voice calls, they could as well as forget it now. They've got friends in
high places :-)

Regards


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

>  Two months ago, at the height of terrorist attacks, State House made a
> call to Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore.
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> Concerned that his government was losing grip of the  situation, President
> Kenyatta wanted to know whether Safaricom would help security agents
> communicate better.
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> http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Why-State-House-made-a-call-to-Safaricom-chief-over-insecurity/-/1056/2313756/-/ybd3dt/-/index.html
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