[kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls

[Wainaina Mungai]

A few years back at the Safaricom offices, President Kibaki tasked
former Info & Comm Minister with implementing such "Digitization" in
government. What ever happened to that?

**Is PS Ndemo still tasked with implementing digitization?

Regards,
Wainaina


On 4/16/09, wesley kiriinya <kiriinya2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well our census is up in a few months. Let's see if technology will be used
> to verify the truth of the collected data.
>
> I believe in a system where everything works like it's supposed to, data
> from deaths, births, immigration (and whatever affects population size) can
> be used to update the population statistics, and a census only conducted in
> areas where there seems to be an abnormal population size change
> (small-scale census). Technology can go a long way into making this a
> reality. I believe the cost of maintaining the technology and doing
> small-scale census would be cheaper than doing an entire census every
> decade.
>
> O_O
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> --- On Thu, 4/16/09, John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [kictanet] South Africa embraces ICT in polls
> To: kiriinya2000 at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009, 11:04 AM
>
>
>
> Not sure if our next "Kivuitu" wants to hear things like below ;-)
>
> walu.
> ~~~~~~
> By CHARLES OMOND IPosted Thursday, April 16 2009 at 10:41
>
> In Summary
>
> As the rest of the continent dithers, use of information communication
> technology in South Africa's political processes has enabled thousands of
> its citizens overseas to vote, a whole week ahead of their home-based
> compatriots.
>
> JOHANNESBURG, Thursday
> As the rest of Africa dithers, South Africa has moved fast to embrace
> information communication technology as part of its political processes. And
> as a result of the revolutionary move, thousands of eligible voters have
> already cast their ballots away from home and a whole week ahead of their
> home-based compatriots.
>
> Rest of the story...
> http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/-/1066/560768/-/13ph0aiz/-/index.html
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> walu.
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