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 <ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk> 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 <erik@zungu.com>
To: ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
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 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 info@ndockenya.org Call +254-020-2212386
Nairobi, Kenya
· nationaldisaster.go.ke 

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 - 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.

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