eNuri 2002 Fact Finding Trip To Somalia

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The following article was posted on Somalinet after the CEO return from a fact finding trip to Somalia. eNuri CEO at the time predicted that Islam will be the only viable alternative for Somalia. Today after the Islamic Courts sweeping popularity, I take pleasure to repost once again another eNuri prediction that is taking place before our eyes. enjoy the reading

 

 

Nurtel (eNuri) CEO Visit To Somalia 2001-2002

 

 

Fact Finding Trip Report for jump starting Somalia Operational System Version 91.0

 

 

Somalia 91.0 has crashed beyound repair, for the last 12 years unqualified technicians and engineers have been busy attempting to troubleshoot the system, but with no success, today, users of the system are running their applications on smaller systems written to run essential applications, required by users.

 

By far the most stable of the new systems is Somaliland 2002, specially after the first smooth log-on and password change by the new system Manager to replace the outgoing system manager. Somaliland 2002 supports the following applications

 

1. Peace and security ( Foreign ASP Application Service Provider supported)

2. Education

3. Industry and commerce

4. Spiritulity (Coordination with Foreign ASP requirements)

5. Healthcare ( with add on application)

 

After examining the system at the main terminal ( Hargeisa Airport), I could not believe how efficient the system works, it is too scary when you think about how smooth the system handles peace and tranquillity application. Recently though, the system began to show some cracks after it failed to run Tranquillity and peace application in Las Anod, a disputed site where two system operators are competing for users.

 

Another application that replaced Somalia 91.0 is the puntland 2002, a robust system remotely controled via wireless from a main frame in a non native environment, Puntland 2002 worked efficiently for the past ten years, aalthough the system was initially designed to support exisiting commercial applications.

 

Lately though, the system has crashed at least couple of times, fortunately, the system manager restored operation back to normal in record time. Some users have tried to run some spirituality applications on Puntland 2002 with no successs, System managers decided not to run any spiritual application on the Puntland 2002 system. In my last trip to Galkacyo, engineers who declined to be named confided to me that the reason the Puntland system does not support Spirituality application is because of incombatibility which is due to the non standard interface connecting the system to a non-native host system database in Addis Ababa. Host System In Addis conflicts with the spirituality applications, because it was not designed from the beginning to support spirituality applications.

 

When I visited Mogadishu, the HQ that housed Somalia 91.0 system, I was amazed how resourceful the local residents were, theirs is a system that everyone can log on in Mogadishu and vicinities, called CHAOS 2002. The sytem allows multiple access, no passwords are required to access the system, and everyone has access to the source code if they can invoke a Clan allegiance password.

 

What surprised me in the Chaos 2002 was that it actually runs well if you adjust your pull down menue buton to ( Personal security very low to insignificant) mode, while touring the HQ, I could hear loud sounds and the system engineers assured me that it was a periodic system crashs caused by two subusers belonging to the Father-of-Camels Clan, Engineers spent four days to run the ( tranquillity application) The engineers later told me that the Little-Orphans subClan are not compatible with the Good-News-Reporters subClan, but a temporary solution was found, the Engineers were more worried about another system inconsitency affecting other system users such as the Happiness Clan and their cousins.

 

The strength of Chaos 2002 system is that it is a distributed system, humming within the HQ environment, it could be down in Medina but working fine in Laba dhagax, users are used to fatal errors, they believe that at any time the system can crash, those not affected carry on and live goes on.

 

I was told , that in Kismaio the CHAOS 2002 is working fine and the Jubba lands are connected to Addis Ababa via sattelite where foreign engineers are maintaing the system to make sure that if any integrated systems is placed in Mogadishu, that the system should support the Applications Service Providers current applications, specially the Tigrenya Security and Fisq applications.

 

After this quick tour, I thought about the idea of developing a new system that can accomodate all users who were using the Somalia 91.0 and here is my initial plan:

 

 

Phase one: Gather requirements of the system ( From Somalinet audience) Here I need your input, what would you like the system to do?

 

User groups can be : 1. Tribal, Color, Sex, Religious preference, Anarchists, dreamers, ..etc.

 

Their requirements can be: Peace, food, faith, health care, education, fun, sports etc.

 

The outcome possibilities are result of the matrix of the above two lines. but to filter them to workable sets, we need to analyze the requirements which brings us to next Phase.

 

Phase Two: Analyze requirements of different user groups for conflict. System Developers are worried that some users requirements may critically impair other users or put them out of business all together. So a delicate job for Ssytem Developers is to weigh the requirements by a fair benchmark, This will lead us to set up a Standard and a Benchmark to accomodate all groups, or as much s possible.

 

Phase Three: Agreement on common standards acceptable to all: After studying the standards issue, our developers have come to a difficult standard: Here is their Motivation:

 

If we select any groups standard as a benchmark, the others will refuse, because each standard is designed to protect interests of the group that has endorsed it, so to be fair to all we looked for a standard by an outsider. Here we found two choices.

 

1. Terrestial

2. Extra terrestial

 

After a long debate, the Developers agreed to adobt the Extra Terrestial Benchmark standard. Again Developers found many Standards that claim to be Extra terrestial, after careful examining of all the Standards, the Developers again selected ISLAM as the best fit solution for the Somali Users of the sytem, as Islam met more criteria than the rest, and since virtually all Somalis accept this standard, a unanimous deceision was reached to Adobt Islam as the Standard on which to base the Sytem Requirements

 

Phase Four: Conflict resolution based on Standards : Once the Islam Standard is established, A developer team will carry out a Conflict resolution project to narrow down conflicts and bridge concerns, one ancient remedy in this regard is to have each Clans representative marry from its rival to cement love and affection. Other ideas are still flowing and yours is needed.

 

Phase Four: Technical Requirements of the system ( technical Team) Here, A technical team will meet to sift through the heaps of documents collected in other phases, and will meticulously lay down a unified list of requirements for the system, to be presented to Sytem designers.

 

Phase five: System Design this phase will employ all talents available to translate the requiremens into a working system. Your resumes are needed so that we can use your skills where they are neede best.

 

Phase Six: System Testing: Developers will test the system in selected sites, depending on the application mostly used and needed

 

Final Phase: Soft Launch of the system, without any fanfare, the system will be launched quitely and Developers will be on the highest allert to respond to any failures. A Call Center will be set up to learn dynamically the problems, log histories, follow up repair and assign jobs to the most qualified technicians on the pool. A CRM system will be employed to work with the Call center. The Call center will be managed by System specialists who have helped in the development, later , the most experienced Developer will be propmoted to become Chief System Manager, He will not be a human, he will be a SONY assembed ROBOT with artificial intelligence.

 

 

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Nomads

 

eNuri predicted that islam will be the choice of Somalis at the end, above is an eNuri Techno-post ( from Requirements Engineering Point of view) written as a satirical piece, addressing all the different stakeholders in our national dilemma, but with the sweeping success of the Islamic courts, Islam remains our everlasting choice as predicted back in 2002 after my trip to Mogadishu. Now, The Ethiopians are getting involved in our internal affairs, my prediction is that civil war will break in Ethiopia if ( Allah forbid) the conflict erupts in Mudug.(inshAllah)

 

 

Nur

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Nomads

 

This thread was predictive of the emergence of Islam as the force that will drive political landscape in Somalia. I wrote the original article right after my visit to Mogadishu in 2002.

 

Today, I see a chance for peace in Somalia, if and only if the King makers behind the scenes of Somali politics stop interfering in Somalia's internal conflict.

 

Sheik Shareef, who was the head of the Islamic Courts Union in 2006, has been classified by the "Moderate" US NEOCON administration as a "Moderate" Islamist ( Depending on the sickness in Somali people's hearts, different doses of Islam can be effective on different ailments, thus "Moderate" Islam is for curing mild social ills, while "Extremist" Islam is for correcting serious sociopolitical illnesses!. What needs to be diagnosed in the coming days is Somalia's sociopolitical ailments, and since the ailments where terminal in nature ( Failed State), hence the need for a shock therapy For Example to rid the country of the scourge of the Warlord Criminals, their sponsors and the drug trade"

 

 

The current parliament is not a representative parliament since no one has set up an election process within the country to legitimize it. The election criteria was Machiavellian, simply any group who can prove to have the ability to make problems gets a representation equivalent to the problems that they can make.

 

With that logic, the current 4.5 system was adopted. The (0.5) people are not half humans as the fraction implies, contrary to that, they are very decent and peaceful people (which works against them in present Parliamentary representation scheme which favors warlords), and in numbers they could be as much as the combined 4 entities, while in terms of their contribution to national economy, they are far ahead than all other regions in contributions.

 

 

Now that the "International Community" ( US, UK, Ethiopia, Poland and Palau) is eager in making peace and to that objective they have created the Hybrid Moderate Islamist - Warlord Parliament. It looks futile effort at best to include a " Moderate Islamist" group, while the more radical ( from American Perspective )Al Shabaab and other fighting groups who control a large swathe of the country are not represented.

 

In Israel, the extremists are in power, so what is wrong if Al Shabaab are in power in Somalia? given they are given as much Parliament seats that are equivalent to the territory they control? because that is the same logic behind the representation of the warlords, those with military power are represented with more seats. Thus, if the" Moderate Islamists" were given 200 seats, then by a simple ratio, the " Extremists" require 400 seats to make peace! and that is if they would accept to join such a parliament to begin with!

 

Well, If that is not acceptable to the " International Community", then a change in the representation scheme should be in order. More parliament seats should be given to the more peaceful peoples while less seats should be assigned to more violent peoples, which again will give the people of Jubba and Shabelle more seats, again, they will elect the Al Shabaab as their representatives who can protect them from warlords, I know this to be an inconvenient truth.

 

 

If that is not acceptable, there is one more proposal for peace in Somalia.

 

1. Let Somaliland live in peace, do not disturb the only Somali region that was peaceful for the last 20 years.

 

2. Let The Shabaab alone to rule their current territory.

 

3. Mogadishu should be shared between Sheikh Sharif's Jibouti Faction, The Asmara Faction and the Al Shabaab movement.

 

4. The "Moderate Islamist - Warlord government will also rule the rest of the country except for Somaliland and the Southern territories.

 

5. After two years, an International observer group will evaluate the following metrics.

 

A. Law and Order.

 

B. Economic Progress and Self sufficiency.

 

 

The regional administration that scores the best in the above criteria shall lead the nation to a unified government.

 

 

Nur