<div dir="ltr"><ol><li>Pervasive CCTV on all major routes and public spaces</li><li>Shared/Centralized databases for biometrics</li><li>Comprehensive "Watchlist" with as much biodata on suspects and potential suspects as can be gathered</li>
<li>Facial recognition technology</li><li>Top notch physical and digital forensics labs, tools and personnel</li><li>Encrypted inter-personnel communication (especially for first responders, investigative teams and key decision makers)</li>
<li>Fully integrated border control systems</li><li>Intelligence/Law enforcement access to all debit/credit card transactions (identity, location and time/date, not amounts)</li></ol><p>My two cents,</p><p><br></p><p>Mblayo<br>
</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Barrack Otieno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com" target="_blank">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">True Ali,<br>
<br>
Michael Joseph kept saying we are a country on the verge of greatness<br>
but its this social vices that prevent us from achieving greatness as<br>
a country, if we sort this pillar we will achieve vision 2030 before<br>
2030.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
On 4/15/14, Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>> wrote:<br>
> Barrack<br>
><br>
> Couldn't agree with you more. Though technology can change habits it needs<br>
> to be anchored on solid a social pillar. The other day I read a quote from<br>
> Chris Kirubi about social media. What struck me is what he said,about<br>
> technology. Although the quote was about social media and Brand Strategy I<br>
> loved what he said about Technology being the tail NOT the dog.<br>
><br>
> "You don't need a social media strategy - you need a brand strategy that<br>
> leverages social media. Don't get off the brand strategy just because<br>
> there's a new communications channel, that's how you lose the plot as a<br>
> brand. Technology is the tail, not the dog," Chris Kirubi, Chairman of Coca<br>
> Cola Nairobi (via Tim Sanders).<br>
><br>
> So who wags who? The dog or the tail? Food for thought.<br>
><br>
> Ali Hussein<br>
><br>
> <a href="tel:%2B254%200770%20906375" value="+254770906375">+254 0770 906375</a> / 0713 601113<br>
><br>
> Twitter: @AliHKassim<br>
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><br>
> "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will<br>
> have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein<br>
><br>
> Sent from my iPad<br>
><br>
>> On Apr 15, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Mwendwa,<br>
>><br>
>> Our biggest challenge in achieving vision 2030 is in the Social and<br>
>> Political pillar. We need a concerted effort that will ensure that we<br>
>> are a value driven society, this is the only way we will tame social<br>
>> vices that have resulted in the current mess we are in. That said it<br>
>> can be done.<br>
>> Technology is a means to an end not an end in itself.<br>
>><br>
>> Best Regards<br>
>><br>
>>> On 4/15/14, Crystal Watley Kigoni <<a href="mailto:crystal@voicesofafrica.org">crystal@voicesofafrica.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> If anyone recalls I asked for assistance in 2011 to build a database of<br>
>>> all<br>
>>> the refugees in the country with distributed points of registration<br>
>>> starting in the camps. I wrote to Ndemo who was PS at the time and the<br>
>>> idea<br>
>>> was ignored.<br>
>>><br>
>>> IT can change a lot, but it requires real effort and implementation.<br>
>>> Good<br>
>>> ideas alone are not enough.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Best wishes,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Crystal Watley Kigoni<br>
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>>><br>
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>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva <<br>
>>> <a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Government to register all Kenyans afresh in digital database<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> <a href="http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Digital-database-for-all-kenyans/-/1950946/2279712/-/format/xhtml/-/uityfn/-/index.html" target="_blank">http://mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Digital-database-for-all-kenyans/-/1950946/2279712/-/format/xhtml/-/uityfn/-/index.html</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I've always wondered why it's virtually impossible to get UK or US<br>
>>>> citizenship through the back door, unless you get into a phony<br>
>>>> marriage with a delinquent from those countries. Will setting up a<br>
>>>> biometric database prevent rogue employees at the department of<br>
>>>> registration from getting bribes to register foreigners as Kenyan<br>
>>>> citizens? As far as I can remember, when I applied for the kipande,<br>
>>>> all my 10 digits' prints were taken.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>> ______________________<br>
>>>> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br>
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