Adam, that's one of the simple things too. Yes, it takes money and commitment to run a national 999 number, but that's what the NDOC is for. What I'm getting at is there are a lot of simple things that could be done, a lot of low hanging fruit that would make both communications and organization easier in an emergency. -- Erik Hersman Ushahidi | iHub | BRCK @WhiteAfrican US: 407.427.412 | Kenya: +254 729.157.257 | Skype: ezungu On Sep 27, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Adam Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
Wait. Are you saying that if I call 999 somebody will answer and that I can report emergencies to them??? Will they dispatch police and/or ambulances?
Everybody I had talked to said that wasn't possible.
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Kivuva <[email protected]> wrote: 999 used to be soo effective, but I think death of the telephone booth did it in.
But recently I find that 999 to be stable. At least it works on my Safaricom line
On 27/09/2013, Adam Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number#Africa
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:24 PM, John Kariuki < [email protected]> wrote:
Eric,Listers. The matter raised is urgent.The ICT Cabinet Secretary could probably take it as a matter of national importance.
John Kariuki
------------------------------ *From:* Erik Hersman <[email protected]> *To:* [email protected] *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> *Sent:* Thursday, 26 September 2013, 9:23 *Subject:* [kictanet] It's the simple things, NDOCKenya
I realized the other day that the Kenya National Disaster Operations Center (known to us as @NDOCKenya <https://twitter.com/ndockenya> 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:
*The Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre manages and coordinates disaster response at a national level. Email [email protected] Call +254-020-2212386*
* Nairobi, Kenya *
*· ** ** nationaldisaster.go.ke <http://t.co/9dWdiHpAbE>*
Now, you'll note three things:
1. The website doesn't work. There is absolutely nothing, it's just a dead page. 2. The email address goes to NDOCKenya.org <http://ndockenya.org/> - 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? 3. A way to reach the *NATIONAL* 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.
It's the simple things.
-- Erik Hersman
Ushahidi <http://ushahidi.com/> | iHub <http://ihub.co.ke/> | BRCK<http://brck.com/> @WhiteAfrican <http://twitter.com/whiteafrican>
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