[kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs

Wed Jan 9 11:15:23 EAT 2008

Good people,

Michael Joseph is right. We are barking at the wrong trees since this
whole thing is just in the in the mind whether the glass is half-full
or half empty. We should avoid aggravating situations in the name of
fixing.

My take on this tribal thingie? Our last year ridiculed Kai-Gakuru
"cerebration of cultural diversity portal". (BTW, Kai, I hit some
tough support glitches otherwise it still lingers high on my wish
list)

Calm day

Alex

On Jan 9, 2008 11:07 AM, Michael Joseph <MJoseph at safaricom.co.ke> wrote:
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> I am really sad to see how we are somehow implicated in the message
> broadcast by vernacular radio stations. Are we supposed to operate as a
> censor and control the output of these stations? I do not condone in any way
> any of the violence which may have been caused by their output, but they are
> listened to by a great proportion of the population and provide us with a
> channel to reach their listeners.  Should we not advertize on KBC radio
> because it is perceived to be the voice of the Government?
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> I am very sad to read that you think that we then try to assuage our guilt
> by our CSR programs and how it is belittled by you. Why don't you ask the
> beneficiaries of these programs if we should stop or if the programs are
> meaningless?  I would beg to differ and say that the CSR programs of
> ourselves, EABL, Coca Cola and many others are one of the most important
> development tools in this country in the last 5 years.
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> Regards
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> Michael
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> CEO
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> Safaricom Limited
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>  ________________________________
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> From: kictanet-bounces+mjoseph=safaricom.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+mjoseph=safaricom.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
> Behalf Of robert yawe
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>  Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:17 AM
>  To: Michael Joseph
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>  Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>  Subject: Re: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
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> Hi Kagwe,
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>  Why is it that tribal issues are most violent outcome among poor?  I
> believe because they suffer from more than economic poverty but also
> associative poverty.
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>  When the Luo's call their shanty villages Kisumu Ndogo and the Kikuyu's
> Kwanjenga we refuse to create diversity of association and thus loose the
> opportunity for cultural wealth.  The creation of vernacular radio stations
> has not helped the issue either.  We have become worse had implementing
> ethnic segregation than God or the colonizers, the Boars cannot hold up a
> candle to us.  What this does is it makes it uncomfortable for me and my
> neighbour to listen to radio together because he is Luo and I am what I am.
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>  With a literacy level of 60% why are we cowering into our tribal cocoons
> instead of becoming more cohesive.  I believe that Kiswahili and English
> programing should take up 80% of all radio station content otherwise we
> might as well have the parliamentarians take a vernacular proficiency test
> to be allowed to participate in elections and also have our national exams
> done in vernacular.
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>  Who funds this radio channels that propagate ethnicity, its the Breweries,
> Safaricoms, Bidcos and Coca Colas as their only objective is a profit.  They
> then walk around flounting their CSR (or should it be CPR - corporate profit
> responsibility) programs, if they refused to support all this ethnic
> stations their CSR programs might be more effective. After supporting KASS
> FM and others they will now be running to Eldoret to give blankets to people
> who where, as of 27th December, self reliant before the radio station
> broadcast inflammatory contents soon after the commercial message.
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>  The lawyers have got us to this impasse when they arm-twisted the Moi
> government to issue all with radio frequencies, similarly to what they did
> for Rwanda.  As history teaches us we never learn from it, we are moving
> full steam towards ethnic cleansing.
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>  Let us us make use of technology to broadcast information that will bring
> us together, lets run completions that test our knowledge of other ethnic
> groups.  Lets install computers in our rural schools and have the children
> send e-mails to each other across the country, not those misguided projects
> that get Kenyan children to communicate with kids in Europe & the US.  We
> have the technology that allows us to implement solutions that do not
> require parliamentary approval or a government license. Awake and stop this
> lip service on the issue of ethnicity we are all responsible for getting
> this country to where it is today.  Do we have what it takes to change
> course.
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>  Yes, I do know the causes and like a typical Kenyan I know the solutions
> but only discuss them on forums instead of taking action.  Like a serial
> killer I am looking to be stopped, can someone push me to act on my
> theories?
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>  Regards
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> Robert Yawe
>  KAY System Technologies Ltd
>  Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>  P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>  KEnya
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> Tel: +254722511225
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> ----- Original Message ----
>  From: James Kagwe <jkagwe at KIPPRA.OR.KE>
>  To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
>  Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>  Sent: Tuesday, 8 January, 2008 3:09:19 PM
>  Subject: Re: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
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> Please let us know that the problem we are having in the country now is more
> in the mind than anywhere else. Technology could help but even with
> technology it is possible for people who have the same tribal convictions
> that their tribal chief has to be the president to conspire to inflate the
> polls and actually go ahead and mark the ballot papers in favor of their
> candidate.
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> Tribalism is the main problem and this has to be fought by all means. Most
> of the problems were experienced in the strongholds of the main candidates
> and this confirms the greatest worry.
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>  ________________________________
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> From: kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+jkagwe=kippra.or.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf
> Of Evelyn Rono
>  Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:29 PM
>  To: James Kagwe
>  Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
>  Subject: Re: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
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> Hi Bobby,
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> Several ICT companies and individuals approached the ECK with the intention
> of  supporting and a managing the process with ICT.    I quote " ECK in 2004
> was provided with IT hardware & software and GIS electoral database created
> with each individual polling station positions' mapped using GIS technology
> that integrated with the electoral database through a unique ID for polling
> station.  The constituency boundaries provided the domain universe within
> which each polling station could be located for administrative purposes.
> Training was also conducted for ECK".  The same company tried to do the same
> 2007
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> This did not happen – Only ECK knows.
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> Evelyn Rono
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> From: kictanet-bounces+evelyn.rono=kdn.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> [mailto:kictanet-bounces+evelyn.rono=kdn.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
> Behalf Of robert yawe
>  Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 11:51 AM
>  To: evelyn.rono at kdn.co.ke
>  Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>  Subject: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
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> Happy new year to you all and I pray that you are all well.
>
>  It is shocking that in this day and age we can actually have the kind of
> electoral fiasco that has been visited on us by the ECK and Co as well as
> the political parties.
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>  This draconian problem reared its head when the Orange house was broken
> into and the computers stolen.  Hon.Nyongo's statement indicated that the
> objective was to steal the member register.  If I needed to steal the
> register which from his comments was in electronic form what was the need of
> taking off with the computer.  Has he ever heard of flash disks,  external
> hard dis drives and CD/DVD writers.  Technology allows me to steal his data
> without him every knowing.
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>  After this issue Kivuiti dismissed the SMS service that had been made
> available by Telkom to enable voters confirm their details.  He even went to
> the extent of saying he does not know how to send an SMS.  As the IT
> fraternity in the country can we really escape blame for this fiasco?
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>  The next time was when  I saw Hon. Ruto standing at KICC and screaming
> himself hoarse over the forms 16 & 16A that had not been received.  It seems
> he might be using a Nokia 1018 mobile phone (he actually uses a Nokia N
> series).
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>  Was it so difficult for the opposition to provide each of their agents with
> a camera equipped mobile phone that they would have used to to take pictures
> of the form and also record the returning officer announcing the results.
> This would then have been easily sent to party head quarters.
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>  There are 210 or so constituencies in the country and the mobile phones I
> am talking about cost about 10,000/- each do the math.
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>  I ask am I the only Kenyan who is aware of such technology or is this
> entire fiasco a stage managed process.  Even the EU observer teams came
> equipped as if it was the 12th Century after which they proceeded to make
> unsupported statements about the result that further inflamed bloodshed.
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>  Maybe its a techie thing to keep in our glass houses and refuse to add
> value to a process and only send around message (this one included) after
> the fact.
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>  It is re-assuring when we remember the Florida fiasco but this not
> withstanding do we really have a moral standing to point fingers about the
> election results?
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>  What will be our contribution to stopping this from being repeated in
> future?
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>  Regards
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>  Remember Matiba and his video cameras during the good old days of mulolongo
> voting?
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> Robert Yawe
>  KAY System Technologies Ltd
>  Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>  P O Box 55806 Nairobi , 00200
>  KEnya
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