[kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
Harrison K Kairo
kairo at softlaw.co.ke
Wed Jan 9 11:04:31 EAT 2008
Robert and James,
I don't think we need to throw the baby out with the bath water. The
problem is not that there are vernacular stations, but that these
stations have been used irresponsibly by their promoters. Vernacular
stations if responsibly managed can play the important function of
positively promoting culture and traditions; which add to our national
heritage.
What we need is a code of ethics and regulation that impose stiff
penalties on those who use vernacular radio stations for purposes of
incitement.
Regards,
Harry Karanja
SoftLaw Limited
www.softlaw.co.ke
James Kagwe wrote:
>
> Robert,
>
>
>
> Maybe we should start campaigning for all vernacular stations to be
> shut. I don't think they add so much value, in any case we have a
> fairly literal community in Kenya and I'm almost sure there are very
> few in Kenya who cannot understand Kiswahili and English. In any case
> the cost of teaching Basic English and Swahili languages to those who
> do not know is cheaper than what we have lost in one week. What
> happened last week has never happened since independence and probably
> the main cause is the vernacular radio stations which have drastically
> increased in the last 3-5 years with their inciting messages and
> statements.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> James Kagwe
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> *From:* robert yawe [mailto:robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:17 AM
> *To:* James Kagwe
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Election fiasco reveals Technological dinosaurs
>
>
>
> Hi Kagwe,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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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> *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
>
>
>
> Hi Bobby,
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> This did not happen -- Only ECK knows.
>
>
>
> Evelyn Rono
>
>
>
> *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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
>
> What will be our contribution to stopping this from being repeated in
> future?
>
> Regards
>
> Remember Matiba and his video cameras during the good old days of
> mulolongo voting?
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi , 00200
> KEnya
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