Team,

I hear you all loud and clear. I also know that the importance of ICT is well known understood in government. But like most things important there seems to be a blockage. We will try our best to shout and ask questions but reeaaly  looong responses will be provided and we go round in circles. We will soldier on though. Let me draft some statements for someone (Senator) to ask me these questions  as leadership of ICT Comittee so that we trigger debate and use that to seek answers from all concerned. Lately I am having to do this a lot - did that with connectivity concerns, taxation etc... 

Thanks again y'all. 

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 14:54 Twahir Hussein Kassim via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Senator,

We cannot over emphasise what Ali has so ably jotted down. To expound on this further... 
  a) That government jobs are so temporary especially for a certain cadre of people - the job might be temporary but the government isn't whatever is done within the  government should remain. Having said that, I would also say that that is not a valid excuse. Take an example of a CeC, a Chief Officer or Director in a county government using a personal mail for official communications. The position they hold might be politically connected and be replaced immediately there is a change of guard, however whatever they touch whilst in that position has a lot of impact on the ground.
  b) Tech maintenance and support is so bad - agreed and I go back to point (a) above; seriously this should not even be an argument. What comes to light is the utter disregard for ICT to regard it as the OLDEN day copy typist who would type and file the copy which might never be sourced for again. What we forget is that whatever is saved online now can be retrieved in a nano-second and were it to be released to the public might create a pandora effect. For as long as we don't treat IT seriously tech-support would be left to interns or anyone who can hold a screwdriver! I would equate tech support to the BANK VAULT KEY HOLDER, would the key be left to an intern? 

Remedy
Mandatory ICT Literacy which should include a session on ICT Security and Cyber Crime.

Kwa hayo machache... :-) asanteni



On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:58 AM Ali Hussein via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Mheshimiwa

Thanks for your personal attention on this matter. My two cents:-

1. First to answer your two issues.

a) That government jobs are so temporary especially for a certain cadre of people - For as long as one is in Government employment everything that person does on behalf of the people of Kenya remains the property of the people of Kenya. I think the confusion starts when government employees mix personal business with government business. There's a possibility here that there is a requirement for some sensitivity training. We do take a lot for granted but we shouldn't. Bottomline. ALL OFFICIAL BUSINESS SHOULD BE DONE OFFICIALLY. ON GOVT COMMUNICATION CHANNELS.  Which means official .go.ke emails. 
b) Tech maintenance and support is so bad - I will not be surprised if this is the case.  However, this should not be an excuse for not using official Govt Email. To be honest, Mheshimiwa, its super embarrassing for a country that is kicking ass (forgive the slang) in the technology space worldwide to have a conversation with colleagues in say Nigeria, and one sentence about Government Ministers using gmail/yahoo/hotmail deflates the conversation. Isn't the ICT Authority supposed to sort of act as Government CIO (Chief Information Officer). May be its time for a substantive Government Chief Information Officer responsible for all ICT issues in Government? including Data Centres, ICT Strategy etc? Do we need to revisit ICTA's mandate? 

2. In today's world, we cannot afford sensitive government documents all over the world wide web on servers that we have zero control of. My sense is that we need to have some basic *musts* that need to be engrained in government employees. This could actually be an act of parliament on how govt operates ICT Infrastructure for its day to day operations.  Here's an example of how the U.K Government deals with this email issue.  

3. Lastly Mheshimiwa, this issue of government email use has been discussed for years on this list and others. I don't honestly think (with all due respect to all responsible) that it has been taken seriously enough. Time to take it a notch higher. Could it possibly be something that the Senate ICT Committee can take up and see it to its logical conclusion? I mean if the National Government is in such a rut when it comes to basic email communication can you imagine what is happening in the counties? 

I think that should be enough to keep you busy on this issue. :-)

Ali Hussein

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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.

Regards

Ali Hussein


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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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