[kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal

[mureithi]

Thanks barrack
For the candidate and their family they interacted with the ict system and the interface was the sms and the web. We should not hide behind huge traffic because the phenomena and the time is known and the implications. 
Another terrible failure is that i and many thousands kenyans  paid upfront to the ict system for a service that was not delivered


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Subject:	Re: [kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal
Author:	Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com>
Date:		29th December 2009 12:51

MM,

I guess it's a bit premature to blame the System, the problem stems from how
the whole announcement was managed, it was improper for the Ministers
handlers to say the results would be available on the site immediately after
the speech, with the anxiety that had been going on i'm sure even the best
servers might not have handled the hits, no wonder the systems were unable
to cope, however this serves as a lesson to KNEC, i am sure they will do
better in 2010.

Happy New Year !

On 12/29/09, mureithi <mureithi at summitstrategies.co.ke> wrote:
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> Zachary
> This was the great opportunity for the ict system to prove its value to our
> society. It failed miserably to just serve less than 1 percent of the
> population and had to walk to schools. Zain however stood tall and 2228
> worked.
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> Subject:        [kictanet] KNEC giving candidates, parents a raw deal
> Author: Zachary Ochieng <zzachmbir at yahoo.com>
> Date:           29th December 2009 09:59
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> Despite the digitisation of  exam results by the Kenya National
> Examinations Council (KNEC) and the Ministry of Education, the platform
> doesn't seem to be working. My daughter is one of the candidates who sat
> KCPE in November 2009. But more than two hours after the release of the
> results by Education minister Sam Ongeri, the KNEC website from where the
> candidates are supposed to check their results remains down. Worse still,
> the 2228 no. to which candidates should text their index numbers to get
> results is also not working but continues to consume airtime to the tune of
> Ksh 20 per SMS. If this is not a rip off, then I don't know the definition,
> coming as it does at a time when the ministry is reeling from a theft
> scandal.
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> One wonders what else the ministry could be hiding. While announcing the
> top candidates, Ongeri never mentioned the names of their schools. But it is
> anyone's guess that majority of them are from private schools. Rather than
> bash the media as he did during the release of the results, Ongeri should
> tell us what is bedevilling FPE.
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> Can someone please help? MY daughter has refused to take lunch until she
> gets her results.
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