Dear Fiona, (in the interest of fair play) ....How I wish telecommunications service providers believed in it or held it half as close to their hearts and practised it in their dealing with consumers of their services. We would have very few, if any, of the shoddy-yet-so-costly services complaints on this list archives - voice, data, Internet, mobile, ..you-name-it. I trust that are aware that from where I stand, one finds it government better when with more "duty bearer role" to communication "rights holders" (a.k.a. consumers). Try out with calls for the protection of users privacy rights, reduced costs (or reduced projected data services revenues?) or try demanding expanded democratic spaces in private telecoms entities, etc... what would you get? Certainly not a pay rise! Your 'forward-outlook' questions border on government policy issues. I am afraid I cannot answer them since I am not in government. Please direct them to the relevant government institutions. This was a generic discussion thread but since it has assumed business predictive twists, excuse me for not commenting any further under it. regards, Alex On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Fiona Asonga<tespok@tespok.co.ke> wrote:
Hallo All
Alex what you say is very interesting however even for the Ministries and all government parastatals to reach their IXP they shall need to make use of private sector infrastructure providers to get them connected. So their data still has to go through private networks unless government also wants to put up their own Internet service Provider and infrastructure company whom they should license (in the interest of fair play) like all others to provide the connectivity to all their ministries.
I am definitely supportive of the Government intranet initiative and look forward to seeing how it all unfolds.
Kind Regards,
Fiona
-----Original Message----- From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Michuki Mwangi Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 2:39 PM To: Gakuru Alex Cc: Skunkworks forum Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] GoK Internet Exchange Point ( GIXP)
Gakuru Alex wrote:
But look at it from a cost-benefit analysis angle. The cost of educating every Civil Servant to ensure all their communications are encrypted. Or (lesser?) costs of implementing the same on every government servers versus the putting of up "GoK-Intranet" GIXP costs. I would bet on GIXP costs being way much lower (and lesser maintenance costs)
What you seem to imply is security through obscurity. Security will have to be built regardless - if you watch whats happening now in most govts you will realise this is not an option. For the same reasons .gov is now a signed zone even before the root is signed goes to tell where everyones thinking is.
Regards,
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