<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Eric,Listers.<br>The matter raised is urgent.The ICT Cabinet Secretary could probably take it as a matter of national importance.<br><br>John Kariuki<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Erik Hersman <erik@zungu.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 26 September 2013, 9:23<br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [kictanet] It's the simple things, NDOCKenya<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4968432149"><div>I realized the other day that the Kenya National Disaster Operations Center (known to us as <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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="yiv4968432149bio-container yiv4968432149editable-group"><div class="yiv4968432149bio yiv4968432149profile-field"><b>The Kenya National Disaster
Operation Centre manages and coordinates disaster response at a national
level. Email <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:info@ndockenya.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:info@ndockenya.org">info@ndockenya.org</a> Call +254-020-2212386</b></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px;"><div><div class="yiv4968432149location-and-url"><span class="yiv4968432149location-container yiv4968432149editable-group"><span class="yiv4968432149location yiv4968432149profile-field"><b>
Nairobi, Kenya
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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="yiv4968432149MailOutline"><li>The website doesn't work. There is absolutely nothing, it's just a dead page.</li><li>The email address goes to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 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>
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