FW: Mars Group Kenya Updates - WHAT'S UP WITH THE TANDAA CONFERENCE? THE TRUTH ABOUT WHERE THE GOVERNMENT OF
Different perspectives on the Tandaa conference..... WHAT'S UP WITH THE TANDAA CONFERENCE? THE TRUTH ABOUT WHERE THE GOVERNMENT OF KENYA SITS IN CYBERSPACE. Blue Host dot Com? Why would a Kenya Government Local Content Initiative be hosted on Blue Host (and only for 1 year) I wondered - isn't it one of those cheap web hosting companies - is it dignified for the GOK to be on something as generic as Blue Host? And we are talking about a USD 4 million grant. Moving on, I pondered, are there any other Government Agencies hosted on Blue Host? What I found was far worse than I could possibly have imagined. The Government of Kenya who should be the greatest provider of local content is housed almost 99% on foreign owned servers - albeit less well known than Blue Host. Among these are: The French owned Telkom Hazina.Treasury.Go.Ke (used to be ours - but was sold just before the election) Something called Puck.Nether.Net - which sits on something called Deathstar.Org Very interesting indeed. Both the host of the Kenya Local Content Conference and the Government of Kenya have for whatever reason chosen to place their content on servers which are not Kenyan owned. What a vote of confidence!. You will be shocked to see where Government of Kenya sits in cyberspace.. Read more at... http://blog.marsgroupkenya.org/?p=397 www.marsgroupkenya.org <http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/> Watching Out For You
Gitau Interesting... The Website for Tandaa www.tandaa.co.ke has been designed and developed by some of our local developers on their own time and resources as part of providing a platform for dialogue for the emerging content development community. The ICT Board is very grateful. If there is a local company willing to provide free web hosting supporting all the features we shall eventually require for this particular website, we will gladly welcome the gesture. Your sincerely Paul Kukubo CEO Kenya ICT Board On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:54 PM, P Gitau Githongo <pgitau@githongo.com>wrote:
Different perspectives on the Tandaa conference.....
WHAT'S UP WITH THE TANDAA CONFERENCE? THE TRUTH ABOUT WHERE THE GOVERNMENT OF
KENYA SITS IN CYBERSPACE.
Blue Host dot Com? Why would a Kenya Government Local Content Initiative be
hosted on Blue Host (and only for 1 year) I wondered – isn't it one of those
cheap web hosting companies – is it dignified for the GOK to be on something
as generic as Blue Host? And we are talking about a USD 4 million grant.
Moving on, I pondered, are there any other Government Agencies hosted on Blue
Host? What I found was far worse than I could possibly have imagined. The
Government of Kenya who should be the greatest provider of local content is
housed almost 99% on foreign owned servers – albeit less well known than Blue
Host. Among these are:
The French owned Telkom Hazina.Treasury.Go.Ke (used to be ours – but was sold
just before the election)
Something called Puck.Nether.Net – which sits on something called
Deathstar.Org
Very interesting indeed. Both the host of the Kenya Local Content Conference
and the Government of Kenya have for whatever reason chosen to place their
content on servers which are not Kenyan owned. What a vote of confidence!.
You will be shocked to see where Government of Kenya sits in cyberspace….
Read more at….. http://blog.marsgroupkenya.org/?p=397
www.marsgroupkenya.org
Watching Out For You
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