Furthermore, the Government through the national treasury is implementing a disaster recovery facility for data and systems as part of the business continuity plan. This will ensure that the Government services continue to be provided even in case of any disaster at the primary sites. This facility will also offer an environment for cloud computing to offer services by the County Governments. Although most County Governments have not yet started developing their ICT infrastructure, NOFBI can be used to connect the National Government to the County Governments and interconnect the latter to share data and information, as shown in the envisioned connectivity between NOFBI and GCCN (see Figure 4). Source: County connectivity project, 2014 ed in extensive and aggressive deployment of infrastructure in most parts of the country by the competing telecommunications businesses (Orange Telkom, Safaricom, Airtel and Essar). In addition, large data infrastructure operators, including Jamii Telecom, Liquid Telcom, Access Kenya Group, Wananchi Group, Kenya Education Network (KENET), MTN, Internet Solutions, amongst others are developing infrastructure. Infrastructure deployment by many operators has resulted to competition leading to a relative reduction of tariffs and increased usage of mobile phones and internet. By September 2013, there were 31.3 million mobile subscribers and mobile penetration of 76.9 per cent. At the same time, there were 25.1 million mobile money subscribers. Estimated internet users were 19.1 million with 47.1 per 100 inhabitants having access to internet services. The International internet bandwidth available was 60,900Mbps of which 41.8 per cent was being utilised (CCK, 2014). 2.6 ICT Services 2.6.1 E-Government Services Figure 4: NOFBI GCCN County Connectivity Apart from the Government ICT infrastructure, operators in the private sector have been busy developing their own national ICT infrastructure. In particular, the mobile and data sub-sector has result- ..30 .................................................................................................................Towards ...............a...Digital .............Kenya ............ The Government of Kenya has implemented electronic systems in various State Departments and other state-owned institutions, including national tax systems, immigration information system, legal information system, the integrated financial management system and education system. Most of these systems are to be found in the National Treasury, Kenya Revenue Authority, Home Affairs State Department and Immigration Office. In addition, information is manually exchanged by and between departments and institutions using fax, e-mail and electronic media. These systems provide partial electronic services to citizens and businesses through Government portals. Figure 5 shows a generic e-Government model. ‘Infrastructure deployment by many operators has resulted to competition leading to a relative reduction of tariffs and increased usage of mobile phones and internet’ 31 Towards a Digital Kenya ..............................................................................................................................................................