[kictanet] .Ke domains cross the 100,000 Mark (Reminder to Team KeNIC to make good on their promise during last year’s AGM on transparency and improving on Corporate Governance. The silence is worrying) - REMINDER NO. 2

Mon Jul 6 08:55:34 EAT 2020

Mheshimiwa

Thanks for your personal attention on this matter. My two cents:-

1. First to answer your two issues.

a) *T**hat government jobs are so temporary especially for a certain cadre
of peopl*e - For as long as one is in Government employment everything that
person does on behalf of the people of Kenya remains the property of the
people of Kenya. I think the confusion starts when government employees mix
personal business with government business. There's a possibility here that
there is a requirement for some sensitivity training. We do take a lot for
granted but we shouldn't. Bottomline. ALL OFFICIAL BUSINESS SHOULD BE DONE
OFFICIALLY. ON GOVT COMMUNICATION CHANNELS.  Which means official .go.ke
emails.
b) *Tech maintenance and support is so bad* - I will not be surprised if
this is the case.  However, this should not be an excuse for not using
official Govt Email. To be honest, Mheshimiwa, its super embarrassing for a
country that is kicking ass (forgive the slang) in the technology space
worldwide to have a conversation with colleagues in say Nigeria, and one
sentence about Government Ministers using gmail/yahoo/hotmail deflates the
conversation. Isn't the ICT Authority supposed to sort of act as Government
CIO (Chief Information Officer). May be its time for a substantive
Government Chief Information Officer responsible for all ICT issues in
Government? including Data Centres, ICT Strategy etc? Do we need to revisit
ICTA's mandate?

2. In today's world, we cannot afford sensitive government documents all
over the world wide web on servers that we have zero control of. My sense
is that we need to have some basic **musts** that need to be engrained in
government employees. This could actually be an act of parliament on how
govt operates ICT Infrastructure for its day to day operations.  Here's an
example of how the U.K Government deals with this email issue
<chrome-extension://ohfgljdgelakfkefopgklcohadegdpjf/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/207131/Private_Email_guidance.pdf>
.

3. Lastly Mheshimiwa, this issue of government email use has been discussed
for years on this list and others. I don't honestly think (with all due
respect to all responsible) that it has been taken seriously enough. Time
to take it a notch higher. Could it possibly be something that the Senate
ICT Committee can take up and see it to its logical conclusion? I mean if
the National Government is in such a rut when it comes to basic email
communication can you imagine what is happening in the counties?

I think that should be enough to keep you busy on this issue. :-)

*Ali Hussein*

Digital Transformation

Tel: +254 713 601113

Twitter: @AliHKassim

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On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 11:33 PM Abshiro Halake via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Ali, Twahir, team,
>
> Great idea to enlighten the government and its agencies on this.  The ICT
> Ministry should actually take the lead. We could put a parliamentary
> question to the ICT Ministry as to why the government continues to use
> personal emails. That being said, I was once told that there are two
> reasons why this is the case - 1. that government jobs are so temporary
> especially for certain cadre of people and 2. tech maintenance and support
> is so bad. Not sure if these are just excuses but it may be worth it to
> still put the questions. Can someone send me a few pointers to include in
> the question/statement? Perhaps why it is important to change this and also
> reassurance on security etc.....
>
> Thanks and kind regards,
>
> Sen. Abshiro
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 8:26 PM Twahir Hussein Kassim via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> On these lines, the central government, county governments, parastatals,
>> constituencies etc need to take the lead.
>>
>> As Ali earlier in the week shared, it's very unfortunate to see
>> government department letterheads with a PERSONAL yahoo / gmail / hotmail
>> address. Is it that the government is unable to host a mail server or
>> procure a cloud service? Bottom line again you will note is the ignorance
>> towards basic IT security.
>>
>> KENIC should seek to enlighten the powers that be!
>>
>> My 2 cents!
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 12:55 PM Ali Hussein via kictanet <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> Team KeNIC
>>>
>>> As we celebrate the 100k milestone we need to take cognisant of the
>>> issues raised in the last AGM. We still await a comprehensive
>>> follow-through by KeNIC. I suspect with better corporate governance the
>>> next milestone of 100k names will be much easier to reach.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> *Ali Hussein*
>>>
>>>
>>> Tel: +254 713 601113
>>>
>>> Twitter: @AliHKassim
>>>
>>> Skype: abu-jomo
>>>
>>> LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim
>>> <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely
>>> mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the
>>> organizations that I work with.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:21 PM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
>>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Listers,
>>>>
>>>> Finally we have over 100,000
>>>> <http://registry.kenic.or.ke/statistics.jsp> .Ke names, what a
>>>> milestone. Next should be the 1 Million Mark.
>>>>
>>>> Kudos to the KeNIC team.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Barrack O. Otieno
>>>> +254721325277
>>>> +254733206359
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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