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.

-- 
Erik Hersman