<div dir="ltr">Call me crazy but I'd vote for an emergency number to reach the police, fire department, and ambulance system over a functioning website. I would have thought that at least the members of KICTanet would agree with that but based on the other thread, even a phone number seems too much and we should leverage 'community' when there's an emergency.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:24 PM, John Kariuki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">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>
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<font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Erik Hersman <<a href="mailto:erik@zungu.com" target="_blank">erik@zungu.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk</a> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> <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><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>I realized the other day that the Kenya National Disaster Operations Center (known to us as <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/ndockenya" target="_blank">@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><div><b>The Kenya National Disaster
Operation Centre manages and coordinates disaster response at a national
level. Email <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:info@ndockenya.org" target="_blank">info@ndockenya.org</a> Call +254-020-2212386</b></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
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Nairobi, Kenya
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<a rel="nofollow" href="http://t.co/9dWdiHpAbE" title="http://www.nationaldisaster.go.ke" target="_blank">
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><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" href="http://ndockenya.org/" target="_blank">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 <a href="http://go.ke" target="_blank">go.ke</a> 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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