The daily queues outside Sheria House are a sign that it is time to speed-up digitization of the birth registration process. To solve the problem, I believe the Kenya ICT Board should lobby for immediate and longterm action within government: *Immediate steps* *1. Application forms: All aplication forms must be availed on http://www.births.go.ke/ and the website made public asap.* 2.* Tracking*: Parents should be able to track applications via SMS and via http://www.births.go.ke/ and via SMS. Models of this exist in government and it's simply a matter of replicating the approach. - National ID card application status - http://www.identity.go.ke/search.html - Passport application status - http://www.immigration.go.ke/index.php?id=25 3. No identity cards (or even primary school admissions) should be issued without the birth certificate. This will encourage registration of births. *Longterm actions* * Every maternity hospital must submit birth information on a daily basis (electronically) and parents issued with a serial number for use in tracking and collecting the birth certificates. Home births via midwives must also be submitted via a registered midwife who must be attached to a local government hospital. Regards, Wainaina
Incidentally www.births.go.ke is reported by my browser as hosting malware so be careful... -- Josiah Mugambi On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Wainaina Mungai <wainaina@madeinkenya.org>wrote:
The daily queues outside Sheria House are a sign that it is time to speed-up digitization of the birth registration process. To solve the problem, I believe the Kenya ICT Board should lobby for immediate and longterm action within government:
*Immediate steps* *1. Application forms: All aplication forms must be availed on http://www.births.go.ke/ and the website made public asap.*
2.* Tracking*: Parents should be able to track applications via SMS and via http://www.births.go.ke/ and via SMS. Models of this exist in government and it's simply a matter of replicating the approach. - National ID card application status - http://www.identity.go.ke/search.html - Passport application status - http://www.immigration.go.ke/index.php?id=25
3. No identity cards (or even primary school admissions) should be issued without the birth certificate. This will encourage registration of births.
*Longterm actions* * Every maternity hospital must submit birth information on a daily basis (electronically) and parents issued with a serial number for use in tracking and collecting the birth certificates. Home births via midwives must also be submitted via a registered midwife who must be attached to a local government hospital.
Regards, Wainaina
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@ Josiah, True that - Mozilla flags www.births.go.ke as a reported attack site - meaning bad boys and girls are using it to launch cyberattacks... funny, just sitting at KICC (ICANN Meeting) listening to the Director General, CCK boasting of our East African Cyber Security Task Force. Maybe this force should start their work on addressing cybersecurity on government websites... walu. --- On Mon, 3/8/10, Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com> wrote: From: Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] www.births.go.ke & SMS To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 11:35 AM Incidentally www.births.go.ke is reported by my browser as hosting malware so be careful...-- Josiah Mugambi On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Wainaina Mungai <wainaina@madeinkenya.org> wrote: The daily queues outside Sheria House are a sign that it is time to speed-up digitization of the birth registration process. To solve the problem, I believe the Kenya ICT Board should lobby for immediate and longterm action within government: Immediate steps1. Application forms: All aplication forms must be availed on http://www.births.go.ke/ and the website made public asap. 2. Tracking: Parents should be able to track applications via SMS and via http://www.births.go.ke/ and via SMS. Models of this exist in government and it's simply a matter of replicating the approach. - National ID card application status - http://www.identity.go.ke/search.html - Passport application status - http://www.immigration.go.ke/index.php?id=25 3. No identity cards (or even primary school admissions) should be issued without the birth certificate. This will encourage registration of births. Longterm actions * Every maternity hospital must submit birth information on a daily basis (electronically) and parents issued with a serial number for use in tracking and collecting the birth certificates. Home births via midwives must also be submitted via a registered midwife who must be attached to a local government hospital. Regards, Wainaina _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: jmugambi@gmail.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jmugambi%40gmail.com -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: jwalu@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com
@ Walu maybe the DG may want to define the EA CSTF and what it actually does :) however @Wainaina under your longterm actions possibly the government could consider unifying all those "identities" into a single reference. For example an typical Kenyan has an ID No, Passport No, Pin No, Birth Cert No, DL No and when they Pass on a Death Cert No. If one number is issued at birth and it covers all the things that require a number tracing and tracking people will not only be easy but all you will need to do is call up one number and it brings up all your details. This will not only encourage registration but make it easier to manage. SammyG On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
@ Josiah, True that - Mozilla flags www.births.go.ke as a reported attack site - meaning bad boys and girls are using it to launch cyberattacks...
funny, just sitting at KICC (ICANN Meeting) listening to the Director General, CCK boasting of our East African Cyber Security Task Force. Maybe this force should start their work on addressing cybersecurity on government websites...
walu.
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From: Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] www.births.go.ke & SMS To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, March 8, 2010, 11:35 AM
Incidentally www.births.go.ke is reported by my browser as hosting malware so be careful... -- Josiah Mugambi
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Wainaina Mungai <wainaina@madeinkenya.org<http://mc/compose?to=wainaina@madeinkenya.org>
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The daily queues outside Sheria House are a sign that it is time to speed-up digitization of the birth registration process. To solve the problem, I believe the Kenya ICT Board should lobby for immediate and longterm action within government:
*Immediate steps* *1. Application forms: All aplication forms must be availed on http://www.births.go.ke/ and the website made public asap.*
2.* Tracking*: Parents should be able to track applications via SMS and via http://www.births.go.ke/ and via SMS. Models of this exist in government and it's simply a matter of replicating the approach. - National ID card application status - http://www.identity.go.ke/search.html - Passport application status - http://www.immigration.go.ke/index.php?id=25
3. No identity cards (or even primary school admissions) should be issued without the birth certificate. This will encourage registration of births.
*Longterm actions* * Every maternity hospital must submit birth information on a daily basis (electronically) and parents issued with a serial number for use in tracking and collecting the birth certificates. Home births via midwives must also be submitted via a registered midwife who must be attached to a local government hospital.
Regards, Wainaina
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Sam Gatere <sam.gatere@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> and it covers all the things that require a number tracing and tracking
people will not only be easy but all you will need to do is call up one number and it brings up all your details. This will not only encourage registration but make it easier to manage.
and easier to abuse a la BB. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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