Why State House made a call to Safaricom chief over insecurity
Two months ago, at the height of terrorist attacks, State House made a call to Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore.Concerned that his government was losing grip of the situation, President Kenyatta wanted to know whether Safaricom would help security agents communicate better. http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Why-State-House-made-a-call-to-Safaricom-chief-...
I see surveillance, and want to link it with personal liberties and data protection Act. Although it's hard to raise these issues when we are under attack from external threats, this is the time government takes advantage to water down human rights laws. On 14/05/2014, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Two months ago, at the height of terrorist attacks, State House made a call to Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore.Concerned that his government was losing grip of the situation, President Kenyatta wanted to know whether Safaricom would help security agents communicate better. http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Why-State-House-made-a-call-to-Safaricom-chief-...
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Kivuva Good point. As I said last week this is an issue that we definitely must err on the right side - National Security. What we must do is ensure that the implementors do it within the confines of our constitution. After all isn't that what differentiates us from those who seek to destroy us in the name of religion and other causes? Ali Hussein +254 770 906375 / 0713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim Blog: www.alyhussein.com "I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". ~ Albert Einstein Sent from my iPad
On May 14, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
I see surveillance, and want to link it with personal liberties and data protection Act. Although it's hard to raise these issues when we are under attack from external threats, this is the time government takes advantage to water down human rights laws.
On 14/05/2014, Grace Githaiga via kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Two months ago, at the height of terrorist attacks, State House made a call to Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore.Concerned that his government was losing grip of the situation, President Kenyatta wanted to know whether Safaricom would help security agents communicate better. http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Why-State-House-made-a-call-to-Safaricom-chief-...
-- ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh
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Dear Mwendwa, You are absolutely right but in reality human rights come after we remain "human" (alive) and not before tragic, traumatizing and often fatal terrorists attacks. Clearly, it is not "GoK taking advantage" but I doubt they have any other credible option than to first secure its' people. What we should be asking is how we can look beyond technology - and engage "Wanjiku" on mega security projects. The game-changer will be how high the convergence point between technology and its consumers can go in terms of integration. Practical public consultations will be key to success of such projects including the digital registration etc. In this case, the so-called "call to Safaricom (and/or any other MNO's) is long overdue. The "should" be made to techpreneurs of user-friendly apps. Kind regards, Stephen Stephen Mutoro Secretary General Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) Meky Place, Block F-45 Ngong Road/Ring Rd Kilimani Junction P.O Box 28053-00200, City Square, NAIROBI, Kenya Tel. 254-20-2615496, 2300859 Fax. 254-20-3861719; Cell phones: 0715555550, 0770700007 E-mail: <mailto:hotline@cofek.co.ke> hotline@cofek.co.ke Website: <http://www.cofek.co.ke/> www.cofek.co.ke Facebook: "Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek)" Twitter: @ConsumersKenya YouTube: "ConsumersKenya" 13th December 2012 - President Kibaki assents to the Consumer Protection Act, 2012 Read it here: <http://www.cofek.co.ke/Consumers%20Protection%20Act%202012.pdf> http://www.cofek.co.ke/Consumers%20Protection%20Act%202012.pdf -----Original Message----- From: kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+hotline=cofek.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:55 AM To: The Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek) Subject: Re: [kictanet] Why State House made a call to Safaricom chief over insecurity I see surveillance, and want to link it with personal liberties and data protection Act. Although it's hard to raise these issues when we are under attack from external threats, this is the time government takes advantage to water down human rights laws. On 14/05/2014, Grace Githaiga via kictanet < <mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Two months ago, at the height of terrorist attacks, State House made a
call to Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore.Concerned that his
government was losing grip of the situation, President Kenyatta
wanted to know whether Safaricom would help security agents communicate better.
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This is one of those things, with hind sight, either comes out as a stroke of genius or we get to ask ourselves, what were we thinking! The difference is in the team that will and/or has already negotiated this and also will implement this. Get the right people in, we are ok, get certain characters in, and we've just made new Billionaires. I would, looking forward, ask how this could lead to a local industry. It is time Safaricom or GoK pushed money to the local techie community to come up with solutions that could be used in the security industry. Let them put out a bounty of Ksh 100M for the three most enterprising security solutions and you'll see what we could come up with. As an example, Ma3route, currently just giving you crowd-sourced traffic updates, with a really good investment, it would be possible to source a lot more open source intelligence... Finally, I hope GoK wakes up to the fact to seriously invest in building local technology firms. Its a lot easier to pull off such similiar deals as opposed to when you have to go through the RfP route only to get a foreign firm running your most sensitive of operations. And for CAK, who thought they would be 'banning' Safaricom for dropping Voice calls, they could as well as forget it now. They've got friends in high places :-) Regards On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Two months ago, at the height of terrorist attacks, State House made a call to Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore.
Concerned that his government was losing grip of the situation, President Kenyatta wanted to know whether Safaricom would help security agents communicate better.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Why-State-House-made-a-call-to-Safaricom-chief-...
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Anybody knows what this ''Security communication and surveillance system'' entails? I think that its important for the public to know what measures are being put in place by GoK under the guise of protecting them from terrorists. Further, and more importantly, it must be restated that human rights are sacrosanct and not even national security should be touted as a reason to claw back on them, especially where there is no lawful cause. Therefore, GoK should in my view and in the same speed and zeal it made the deal with Safaricom, fast track the Data Protection Bill which is long overdue. Victor This is one of those things, with hind sight, either comes out as a stroke of genius or we get to ask ourselves, what were we thinking! The difference is in the team that will and/or has already negotiated this and also will implement this. Get the right people in, we are ok, get certain characters in, and we've just made new Billionaires. I would, looking forward, ask how this could lead to a local industry. It is time Safaricom or GoK pushed money to the local techie community to come up with solutions that could be used in the security industry. Let them put out a bounty of Ksh 100M for the three most enterprising security solutions and you'll see what we could come up with. As an example, Ma3route, currently just giving you crowd-sourced traffic updates, with a really good investment, it would be possible to source a lot more open source intelligence... Finally, I hope GoK wakes up to the fact to seriously invest in building local technology firms. Its a lot easier to pull off such similiar deals as opposed to when you have to go through the RfP route only to get a foreign firm running your most sensitive of operations. And for CAK, who thought they would be 'banning' Safaricom for dropping Voice calls, they could as well as forget it now. They've got friends in high places :-) Regards On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Grace Githaiga via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Two months ago, at the height of terrorist attacks, State House made a call to Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore.
Concerned that his government was losing grip of the situation, President Kenyatta wanted to know whether Safaricom would help security agents communicate better.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Why-State-House-made-a-call-to-Safaricom-chief-...
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Ali Hussein -
Consumers Federation of Kenya (COFEK) -
Grace Githaiga -
Mwendwa Kivuva -
Ngigi Waithaka -
Victor Kapiyo