Great points Muraya.  We will compile all these and put the question to the Ministry.  Thank you all for your great inputs, very helpful indeed.  

Kind regards, 

Abshiro 

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 11:16 S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com> wrote:
Abshiro,

In 2015, we made references to this malpractice on the list (KICTANET - links are offline:)

http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/2015-March/025361.html  - reference was to transparency (accessibility) levels required in the USA.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31806907 

Public info/data is privatized and made inaccessible (to the State and the public) via the use of private e-mail addresses. If the email domain used is private (gmail, outlook, yahoo, co.ke, etc), it does not belong to the Government of Kenya. It is also unlikely to have been (legally) procured via http://ppra.go.ke/ processes. This includes domain management (a technical issue which Walu can explain in simple terms :)


On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 11:33 PM Abshiro Halake via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Ali, Twahir, team,

Great idea to enlighten the government and its agencies on this.  The ICT Ministry should actually take the lead. We could put a parliamentary question to the ICT Ministry as to why the government continues to use  personal emails. That being said, I was once told that there are two reasons why this is the case - 1. that government jobs are so temporary especially for certain cadre of people and 2. tech maintenance and support is so bad. Not sure if these are just excuses but it may be worth it to still put the questions. Can someone send me a few pointers to include in the question/statement? Perhaps why it is important to change this and also reassurance on security etc.....

Thanks and kind regards,

Sen. Abshiro

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 8:26 PM Twahir Hussein Kassim via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
On these lines, the central government, county governments, parastatals, constituencies etc need to take the lead.

As Ali earlier in the week shared, it's very unfortunate to see government department letterheads with a PERSONAL yahoo / gmail / hotmail address. Is it that the government is unable to host a mail server or procure a cloud service? Bottom line again you will note is the ignorance towards basic IT security.

KENIC should seek to enlighten the powers that be!

My 2 cents!

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, 12:55 PM Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Team KeNIC 

As we celebrate the 100k milestone we need to take cognisant of the issues raised in the last AGM. We still await a comprehensive follow-through by KeNIC. I suspect with better corporate governance the next milestone of 100k names will be much easier to reach.

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On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:21 PM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Listers,

Finally we have over 100,000 .Ke names, what a milestone. Next should be the 1 Million Mark.

Kudos to the KeNIC team.

Regards

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