From: Gakuru Alex [mailto:
alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:25 PM
To: Fiona Asonga
Cc:
michuki@swiftkenya.com; Skunkworks forum
Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] GoK Internet Exchange Point ( GIXP)
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-----
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> [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,
>
> Michuki.
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