Eric,Adam Listers There is little doubt that the present public emergency telecommunication arrangement is unsatisfactory. Going forward if we wish to modernize, what is required is a single emergency number for emergencies,namely police,fire and ambulance. Thereafter the first responders from these can be mobilised. The actual routing of calls will depend on the overall design of the network and should not be an issue for callers. John Kariuki ________________________________ From: Erik Hersman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 27 September 2013, 10:01 Subject: Re: [kictanet] It's the simple things, NDOCKenya 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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