@patrick "*Steps away from the podium and heads to a roadside cafe for matumbo fry with ugali saucer"...lol Nice post BTW, Claire. On 1/6/11, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Allow me to play "devil's" advocate here,
The problem here does not lie with the Police Service but with the Ministry of Information and communication which should, in theory work with the public service commission to build human capital for a proper National Computing grid, as I mentioned sometime last year, for ALL Government Ministries, with specific divisions handling sensitive sectors such as Finance, Foreign Affairs, Provincial and Internal security and Defence exclusively. This would have all government websites and online business systems(that require web access - for say the Foreign Affairs Ministry) run from a central point, managed by skilled civil servants that report to their respective ministerial bosses.
The scenario now is pretty ad-hoc with each Ministry handling it's own information and communications policies and budgets, and this is the reason why the go.ke domain has websites and other Information Systems ranging from categories world class to poor man's.
In as much as we are a 3rd world country, fortunate enough to have an excess of skilled labour in the market we should at-least get this bit right. Catching the script-kiddy who defaced the Kenya Police website will only offer a short term solution if not make him/her popular and will not offer a long-term solution in what most members of this mailinglist and other members in the ICT fraternity in Kenya would call irresponsible computing.
My 2 Cents.
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