<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">@ Josiah,<br>True that - Mozilla flags <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.births.go.ke">www.births.go.ke</a> as a reported attack site - meaning bad boys and girls are using it to launch cyberattacks...<br><br>funny, just sitting at KICC (ICANN Meeting) listening to the Director General, CCK boasting of our East African Cyber Security Task Force. Maybe this force should start their work on addressing cybersecurity on government websites...<br><br>walu.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 3/8/10, Josiah Mugambi <i><jmugambi@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] www.births.go.ke & SMS<br>To: jwalu@yahoo.com<br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 11:35 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1445338835">Incidentally <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.births.go.ke">www.births.go.ke</a> is reported by my browser as hosting malware so be careful...<div>--<br>Josiah Mugambi <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Wainaina Mungai <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wainaina@madeinkenya.org" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=wainaina@madeinkenya.org">wainaina@madeinkenya.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">The daily queues outside Sheria House are a sign that it is time to speed-up digitization of the birth registration process. To solve the problem, I believe the Kenya ICT Board should lobby for immediate and longterm action within government: </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><b><u>Immediate steps</u></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">1. </span><i>Application forms</i><span style="font-weight: normal;">: All aplication forms must be availed on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.births.go.ke/">http://www.births.go.ke/</a> and the website made public asap.</span></b></span></b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">2.<b><i> Tracking</i></b>: Parents should be able to track applications via SMS and via <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.births.go.ke/">http://www.births.go.ke/</a> and via SMS. Models of this exist in government and it's simply a matter of replicating the approach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"> - National ID card application status - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.identity.go.ke/search.html">http://www.identity.go.ke/search.html</a></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"> - Passport application status - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; line-height: normal; font-size: small;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.immigration.go.ke/index.php?id=25">http://www.immigration.go.ke/index.php?id=25</a></span></span></div>
</span></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">3. No identity cards (or even primary school admissions) should be issued without the birth certificate. This will encourage registration of births.</span></div>
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</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><b><u>Longterm actions</u></b></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">* Every maternity hospital must submit birth information on a daily basis (electronically) and parents issued with a serial number for use in tracking and collecting the birth certificates. Home births via midwives must also be submitted via a registered midwife who must be attached to a local government hospital.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">Regards,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">Wainaina</span></div></div></span><font color="#888888"><div><div><div><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;"><br>
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