<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I realized the other day that the Kenya National Disaster Operations Center (known to us as <a href="https://twitter.com/ndockenya">@NDOCKenya</a> 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:<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div class="bio-container editable-group"><p class="bio profile-field"><b>The Kenya National Disaster
Operation Centre manages and coordinates disaster response at a national
level. Email <a href="mailto:info@ndockenya.org">info@ndockenya.org</a> Call +254-020-2212386</b></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><p class="location-and-url"><span class="location-container editable-group"><span class="location profile-field"><b>
Nairobi, Kenya
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<a target="_blank" rel="me nofollow" href="http://t.co/9dWdiHpAbE" title="http://www.nationaldisaster.go.ke">
nationaldisaster.go.ke </a></b>
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</span></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Now, you'll note three things:</div><div><br></div><div><ol class="MailOutline"><li>The website doesn't work. There is absolutely nothing, it's just a dead page.</li><li>The email address goes to <a href="http://NDOCKenya.org">NDOCKenya.org</a> - 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? </li><li>A way to reach the <b><u>NATIONAL</u></b> 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. </li></ol><div><br></div></div><div>It's the simple things.</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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