[kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 70, Issue 201 - Re: Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general Election

[S.M. Muraya]

If the "Rule of Law" applies, we all get a level playing field if we are
qualified to deliver.

www.kenyalaw.org/klr/fileadmin/pdfdownloads/Acts/PublicOfficerEthicsAct.pdf

The President Elect mentioned this Act in a presidential debate.

Something tells me, public officials may need to study it again.


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Aquinas Wasike <aquinasw at lantech.co.ke>wrote:

>  Bob,****
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> ** **
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> Thanks for your comments.****
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> ** **
>
> On what the ICT fraternity should do, I don’t think we can do more than
> simply ask for a properly established and institutionalised IEBC devoid of
> vested (political) interests and leverage. I think that the thinking behind
> its establishment just created a lumbering monster with a layer that
> doesn’t really need to be there. And so decisions are mired in too much
> second guessing and political pandering. ****
>
> ** **
>
> As I said, from my point of view, it was never about the technology
> systems but rather the PEOPLE and PROCESSES. And these people would have
> also done a lot better had they taken a good view of what technology to
> deploy. Again my opinion is that some of the systems they bought were an
> overkill and unnecessary! Some of you would be surprised to know that we
> never got to use some of the gear bought for the elections and could still
> very much be packed in their original boxes.****
>
> ** **
>
> Only thing the ICT fraternity should do now is to seek involvement and
> assist IEBC rationalise some of its really unnecessary technology spend and
> today I would start with advocating that the massive investment in the BVR
> and AFIS system be handed over to the Ministry of Home Affairs (Immigration
> & Registration of Persons Bureau) to use for the Civil Registration System.
> This is the exact same system that they have put out a tender for and yet
> we haven’t even started paying for the one procured by IEBC! So in 2017,
> you will have a centralised national civil register (database) and all we
> have to do is go to the polling stations with our IDs to vote! If we don’t
> do this, what IEBC will do is store this system/s away in some warehouse
> and wait until just near the next general election and bring them out for
> another round of voter registration. All that Shs. 9b stored in some
> warehouses in Kasarani or Industrial Area! And then at that time you will
> be told, mark my words, that some systems have been pilfered or that we
> require upgrades!****
>
> ** **
>
> On the passport and ID systems, I think you know that we are using the
> very old ID Card issuance system, procured way back in the early 90’s. It
> is very manual in its process. It is the reason we spend several billions
> every year just to get the card material, that paper (which is sourced from
> only 1 supplier) and lamination material for the ID. Try it next time you
> lose one, you should get issued one across the counter, not several months
> later and yet they have your record that you held an ID card before. We
> could easily have a central civil(ian) database and 3rd/4th Generation ID
> card issuance with the system recently procured by IEBC. Why waste this
> investment.****
>
>
> Finally, I am not in a position to explain why IEBC took certain
> decisions, including the matter of the RTS. That is for them to explain. *
> ***
>
>
> Regards
>
> Aquinas****
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> *From:* robert yawe [mailto:robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:24 PM
> *To:* Aquinas Wasike
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 70, Issue 201 - Re:
> Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general Election****
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> ** **
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> Aquinas,
>
> Thanks for the detailed post but what would you propose that we as members
> of the ICT fraternity should do to make sure that the same or worse does
> not happen again in 2017?
>
> You mention the ID system which to the best of my knowledge as well as the
> one for passports work flawlessly which means that all we need is to
> leverage the same for the next election, therefore there is no need to come
> up with a 3rd generation ID system.
>
> In closing might you be able to explain what was the logic of the IEBC
> when they decided to dump the electronic system that had been used
> successfully for the various by-elections and instead internally procure a
> new system in November 2012?
>
> Regards
>
> PS.  Exactly what services products was Lantech providing to the IEBC?****
>
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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, +254202010696****
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> *From:* Aquinas Wasike <aquinasw at lantech.co.ke>
> *To:* robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 12:36
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 70, Issue 201 - Re:
> Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan general Election****
>
> ** **
>
> Forgive me for the long post that I am just about to make!****
>
>  ****
>
> I would like to chip in with my comments to the on-going discussion about
> IEBC and Technology. ****
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>  ****
>
> The IEBC shortfalls were not about technology. It was about people and
> process and the risk mitigations put around the whole effort!****
>
>  ****
>
> Some of you are aware that we were mentioned several times as a player
> around the technology failures. This is not to placate our position. We had
> no position to defend as our systems were fully and properly delivered and
> performed 100% to expectation. We are very proud of our work at IEBC.****
>
>  ****
>
> Yes, it was a massive IS (Information Systems) effort where literary
> tonnes of cash (yes, I say this with some form of sarcasm as we did not
> need to spend in the manner we did) was availed. The fiasco surrounding the
> BVR voter registration procurement (Biometric & AFIS – to avoid double
> registration/dead voters) has been well documented and written about. Our
> previous elections (2007) were marred by a resultant election violence
> catalysed by a claimed election fraud/theft that is said to have been
> caused by claims that the then manual voter registration system was porous
> and may have been manipulated allowing double registration in some areas
> and even ballot box stuffing in many others. So all this spending was in an
> attempt to avoid a repeat of this.****
>
>  ****
>
> On 9th November 2012 in an email conversation with some colleagues who I
> know are also active on this list I said and I quote *“…….I must say that
> IEBC now remains the single largest threat to the security and safety of
> Kenya in the way they are managing this very sensitive matter. This is my
> personal opinion; it is not the opinion of LANTech (my employer) which is
> currently engaged in a business transaction with IEBC. I would say very
> frankly that their level of preparedness is appalling!”* Still earlier
> on, on 30th October I had expressed the very same similar sentiments where
> I said, *“…..I wonder whether IEBC will not use this as an excuse to
> scuttle any hope for the Kenyan Diaspora to vote. I must say that the
> level/state of preparedness by IEBC is shocking to say the least. It is a
> classic case of how not to! Some of us who are doing some work there are
> just shocked at how things have been left to the very last minute and with
> this you can be sure that a lot of stuff will fall through their fingers.
> We pray for Mother Kenya!”. *As it happens both my predictions have come
> to pass.****
>
>  ****
>
> There numerous goofs were mostly self-inflicted, few others quite external
> and even others very expected on a project of this nature in which you will
> expect that they will anticipate and take corrective action or plan for
> risk mitigation. Let us say that the main and biggest self-inflicted risk
> was procuring the systems very late into the calendar of the already known
> election date (I will not also go into the details of vested interests
> which was well reported about). ****
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>  ****
>
> For example the BVR Kit should have been procured and delivered by May
> 2012 to allow for 90days voter registration period. In the end the voter
> registration was only conducted in 30days deep into the election calendar
> and other milestones on the calendar were equally reduced. Even then
> Kenyans were very eager and more than 14.5m of us registered to vote! And
> we must do away with this practise of registration for elections when they
> are nigh. ****
>
>  ****
>
> Voter registrations should be a continuous exercise (as our new
> constitution states) and even then anybody with an ID, having registered by
> the Registrar of Persons (as an adult Kenyan) should by default have a
> right to vote. The registration of persons should not be any business of
> IEBC as you will see in my other discussion that I will start asking for
> the Ministry of Immigration to stop the current tender for the AFIS/Civil
> Registration systems and instead take over the systems just newly procured
> by IEBC.****
>
>  ****
>
> The IEBC enjoyed massive goodwill both locally and multi-lateral partners
> who ensured that it had all the resources (fiscal) and otherwise to run the
> elections. This is probably where the expectations were not matched evenly
> with the delivery (call it reality). It may seem that the IEBC was lacking
> in that other resource that may not have been anticipated or planned i.e.
> its human resource capacity to deliver on the expectations. The 2013
> Elections were the most complicated ever with 6 different seats being
> voted/vied for at the same time. This was akin to running six different
> elections in parallel. This is a huge logistical exercise by any measure!
> Thus the decision and rightly so to use technology as an enabler to deliver
> the election.****
>
>  ****
>
> If we analyse the Technology dimension, the ICT infrastructure at IEBC was
> discredited and archaic having been largely inherited from the old ECK. No
> clean voter database existed. It had to be recreated afresh with a fresh
> voter registration exercise, the reason for procuring the BVR voter
> registration system (worth close to Kshs. 9b as reported in some circles –
> US$105m). ****
>
>  ****
>
> Then the EVID system (Electronic Voter Identification System/poll-books)
> and other technology that went largely un-reported. Even though the EVID
> system was supposed to be leading-edge, in reality it isn’t. This was
> supposed to identify you at the polling station and then immediately update
> the database that you have indeed accessed your polling station where you
> registered/are supposed to vote and that you have cast your ballot. This
> was the “closest” we would come to electronic voting (as envisaged by the
> Kriegler commission) which was not possible because of the reality of the
> communication infrastructure challenge and the general level of literacy of
> the voting population which may not be at a high enough level to allow for
> a seamless electronic election voting. As we are all aware, these
> poll-books failed massively, sinking close to $40m down the drain!****
>
>  ****
>
> I would say that the risk mitigation applied was in the form of manual
> forms 34 & 36 that we are now familiar with.****
>
>  ****
>
> Talking about the process dimension of the election, IEBC would have had
> to apply a mix of in-house and external persons to conduct the elections
> including taking the route of sub-contracting and outsourcing to conduct
> most of its core mandate i.e. conducting elections. Internally it needed to
> have the requisite skilled people to manage the out-source/sub-contract
> operations while ensuring contracted services are delivered. This would be
> risk transference at work. ****
>
>  ****
>
> An election is a massive exercise in its very nature. IEBC knew that at
> the election period itself, it would require close to 400,000 people
> working for the few days to the run-up to the elections and few days after
> (say a week). This is a huge logistical process and part of the discussion
> would have been to allow the BVR and EVID equipment suppliers to also
> recruit and train the head count that will be used for this period as part
> of the ways of managing this process. This would have probably ensured that
> these gadgets worked and not the excuses that the batteries failed or
> password were forgotten.****
>
>  ****
>
> From the above, we see that the mitigation actions that should have been
> taken would not only be qualitative but also quantitative. A mix of
> technical and social actions should have been deployed. The human factor
> “failed” this election and one would say that the technology integration to
> the whole election exercise failed except the case of the BVR Voter
> registration which mercifully went well/successfully and only due to the
> Kenyans own desire to register and not necessarily that the IEBC did
> anything spectacular about it (as we have seen the voter registration
> systems were delivered very late in the day!). ****
>
>  ****
>
> So then we see the need for a hybridisation of not only the management
> practise but also the actions taken to mitigate the risks.****
>
>  ****
>
> The human element in the whole exercise failed to adequately weld together
> all the various elements to deliver a flawless election. We are now
> discussing that technology failed when it is actually that the people
> tasked with ensuring the integration of all the systems together largely
> did not make this happen.****
>
>  ****
>
> *What I am now concerned about is what we do with this huge investment in
> information technology (close to US$ 150m in value). This is huge spend. We
> must find a way in which this investment must be deployed in other
> departments e.g. the Civil Registration Bureau for a complete new and clean
> civilian database and hence issuance of a new 3rd generation ID card that
> should ideally serve as your voter’s card at any time that an election may
> be called.*****
>
>  ****
>
> I hope that this has not been a boring post. ****
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>  ****
>
> Regards****
>
>  ****
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> Aquinas****
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> Aquinas Wasike****
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> Chief Executive Officer****
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>    1. Re: Opinion Technology, transparency,     and the Kenyan general****
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>       election of 2013 (Jotham Kilimo Mwale)****
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> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 09:03:49 -0700 (PDT)****
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> From: Jotham Kilimo Mwale <jokilimo at yahoo.com>****
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> To: "S.M. Muraya" <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>****
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> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>****
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> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency,       and the***
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>         Kenyan general election of 2013****
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> @Brian - well said in your response to @Walu and also in the article. Ours
> is a manual voting system, and in 2013 some processes (voter registration
> and identification, results transmission and tallying) were enhanced (not
> replaced) by deploying technology. This technology failed (voter
> identification and RTS) on voting day thus removing the enhancement but, in
> my opinion, not affecting the integrity of the manual voting system. Others
> saw it differently, hence the petitions. Detailed Supreme Court judgement
> may shed light on this.****
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>  ****
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> @ Muraya - the high voter turn out in 2013 can be attributed to several
> factors, chief among them that it was a fresh register compiled only 3
> months to the election. Chances are the people who registered intended to
> vote and even if one accounts for natural attrition, chances of well over
> 90% turnout should not raise any eyebrows. This was not the situation in
> 2002, 2007 and 2010 when an old register was updated but the dead over the
> years were never/rarely removed.****
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> ?****
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> Jotham?****
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> From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>****
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> To: jokilimo at yahoo.com****
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> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>****
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> Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2013 3:56 PM****
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> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the Kenyan
> general election of 2013****
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> Even as conspiracy theories (continue to) abound, let us note age old
> wisdom stating:****
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> "Every matter/case must be established by two or three witnesses"****
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> Over 3 elections/witnesses exist as to how many votes were probably cast
> on March 4th, 2013.****
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> Looking at Nairobi votes, (i) the presidential, (ii) governor and (iii)
> senator -- total votes cast were?over 1.3 million (over 72% voter turnout)
> in all 3 races.****
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> If voter turnout in Nairobi has averaged 50% in past elections (2002,
> 2007, 2010 - referendum), this was an over 40% increase....****
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> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>
> wrote:****
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> @Walu****
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> >A forced marriage is very different from a marriage between consenting
> partners. I venture to say that the "marriage" between Kibaki and Raila was
> forced.****
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> >The "marriages" in this election were consensual. Night and day
> difference.****
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> >As for the RTS system - I beg to differ. Not matter how much we may WANT
> the electronic system to have been there as a parallel verification system
> the truth (and the fact) is that RTS was merely for transmission of
> PROVISIONAL results (as clearly indicated in practically all official
> specifications for the RTS). As per the Supreme Court the real vote was the
> paper ballot count along with the various checks and balances.****
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> >** **
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> >Nevertheless your reasoning is spot on in terms of one of the ways in
> which technology *can* be used to enhance the vote. Hopefully if anything
> comes out of this dialogue, some of these points will be included in the
> design of future systems intended to support the election.****
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> >Best regards,****
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> >Brian****
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> >On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:***
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> >@Brian,****
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> >>** **
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> >>Coalition Govt will be with us forever.?? Our current govt, Jubilee is a
> coalition between TNA and URP.? So expect "nusu-mkate" politics to be with
> us for a while and it is not necessarily a bad thing.? Even UK, Germany,
> Israel and many other mature democracies have these types of governments.?
> Perhaps we just need to learn how to manage them.****
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> >>@Rigia,****
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> >>Nice piece on the technology and election processes.? But it misses one
> fundamental that most analysts, legal counsel and I dare say the Supreme
> court may have missed.? The fact that the Results Transmission System (RTS)
> is not just useful in "speeding-up" the announcement of results but its
> fundamental and more useful role is by acting as a PARALLEL verification
> mechanism.?****
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> >>What this means is that once the tallying has been done and announced at
> the LOCAL Polling station, those very (Presidential) results are supposed
> to be instantly transmitted to the NATIONAL Level and thereof made public
> to the wider national community. In essence the "local" data is no longer
> just local but becomes "global", and any attempt to modify the same at a
> later stage,? by way of agreement, error or outright corruption will
> require a good amount of explanation. This is because what was Transmitted
> and displayed electronically is expected to match the physical election
> Forms 34 as they arrive at the National level, 2-3days later.****
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> >>Remember, just because all agents did sign the election documents ****
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> >>(Form34) maybe good but it is not sufficient evidence that what was ****
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> >>countersigned is indeed what was announced (each signatures has a ****
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> >>price?).? It is much stronger and a better? check if what has been ****
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> >>countersigned manually is cross-checked against another parallel ****
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> >>system - the Results Transmission System. One may then ask, what if ****
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> >>the RTS is also compromised? i.e. Agents collude with the Returning ****
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> >>Officer to sends fictitious results instanteneously over the RTS?? ****
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> >>This is unlikely to happen because as our outgoing President, Mwai ****
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> >>Kibaki once rightly put it, you need Intelligence to rig elections ****
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> >>:-).? Most of this "intelligence" only occurs after a period of time ***
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> >>(1-2-3days) later when 60-70-80% of the results at various polling ****
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> >>stations is locally? known? but remains globally or nationally unkown **
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> >>(awaiting physical arrival of Form36) . It will not be very ****
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> >>intelligeny to start****
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> rigging an election, when you are yet to gather the general
> trend(intelligence) of the results since one can easily over-rig and get
> caught :-). So you can bet your salary that instantly transmitted results
> are likely to be more reliable/correct results as compared to the physical
> ones that will arrive 3days later.?****
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> >>Put differently "instantaneous" transmission of? results at the ****
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> >>polling stations distributes widely what is otherwise "local" ****
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> >>knowledge and DENIES potential election riggers the opportunity and ****
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> >>the time to leverage on this type of intelligence. The Results ****
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> >>Transmission System ensures that no single candidate enjoys the ****
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> >>monopoly of local knowledge (Results at? Polling Station that are not **
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> >>yet in the national public domain) and thus eliminates the temptation **
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> >>to abuse the same to their advantage. Knowledge is indeed power and ****
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> >>local knowledge is even more powerful - I should add.? If politician's *
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> >>Agents knew that Polling results were no longer "local" but widely ****
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> >>known across the country - courtesy of the instantaneous Results ****
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> >>Transmission System - then the temptation to sign against ****
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> >>fictitious/edited result figures will be greatly reduced.? Indeed this *
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> >>fact alone, will diminish any Politician's desire to even begin to ****
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> >>compromise Agents at the Polling****
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> station since it is futile to do so upon knowing that the Results are
> already "out and about" in the public domain.?****
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> >>So my prayer for 2017/18 is that as an ICT community, we must ask and
> indeed demand that IEBC ensures that as a minimum tech-input to the
> elections, the Results Transmission System must work.?****
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> >>Lets Enjoy our Easter and the Jubilee years ahead.****
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> >> From: Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe at gmail.com>****
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> >>To: jwalu at yahoo.com p****
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> >>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>****
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> >>Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 11:11 PM****
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> >>** **
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> >>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the ****
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> >>Kenyan general election of 2013****
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> >>** **
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> >>** **
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> >>** **
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> >>Since I have developed a reputation for saying the unpopular things that
> people think but are either too shy or too conflicted to talk about I will
> make a simple point that I have observed over the past few years.****
>
> >>** **
>
> >>While the coalition government was lauded as a reasonable way of dealing
> with the electoral debacle that we faced in 2007, the truth is that for the
> past 5 years there have been some very strange and unusual dynamics at work
> in the operations and makeup of Government departments and agencies. A
> massive plus has been the much higher levels of scrutiny and
> accountability. But I would like to suggest that the benefits have been
> outweighed by the disadvantages.****
>
> >>** **
>
> >>A good example, and one that I would like to use here is the IEBC - it
> is no secret that the two principals had to "share out" the various
> positions that needed to be filled both a commissioner as well as senior
> management. This has been the pattern for almost all appointments and
> recruiting exercises across Government.****
>
> >>** **
>
> >>I venture to say that this approach has been counterproductive and aside
> from yielding teams that can work together in planning, policy, strategy
> and implementation within their departments/agencies has yielded a replica
> of the competitive, antagonistic, selfish and almost vindictive tension
> that has been evident between the two principals since day one.****
>
> >>** **
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> >>It is my sincere hope that the next government will be marked by a
> complete change in attitude, with more of a genuine team-based dynamic in
> terms of setting and achieving organizational goals.****
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> >>** **
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> >>My two cents,****
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> >>** **
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> >>Brian****
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> >>On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Dick Omondi <Dick.Omondi at ke.airtel.com>
> wrote:****
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> >>** **
>
> >>Now that we have a court decision that clears the matter of the
> presidency,  perhaps it is now time to remove the emotions of the decision,
> turn away from politics and get down to the core issues in real
> institutional management and those surrounding the processes and the people
> around the IEBC lest we sit back and get through another four years and put
> together another unit in the last year of the 5 and go back to the same
> merry go round.****
>
> >>>________________________________****
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> >>> From: kictanet****
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> >>>To: Dick Omondi****
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> >>>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions****
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> >>>Sent: Sat Mar 30 21:40:14 2013****
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> >>>** **
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> >>>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Opinion Technology, transparency, and the ****
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> >>>Kenyan general election of 2013****
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> >>>** **
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> >>>Thank you Ali. I appreciate your comments. Shukran.****
>
> >>>** **
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> >>>** **
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> >>>** **
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> >>>** **
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> >>>On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
> ****
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> >>>** **
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> >>>Wariga****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the read. I want to however object to **
> **
>
> >>>>the words:-****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>'...the election results show that technology has failed them.'****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>I humbly submit that what failed us in this case is a mix of partisan
> politicking, a knack for jostling to see how each proponent could
> manipulate the process for their own benefit and lastly the failure of the
> IEBC leadership to accept and tell Kenyans to our faces that the most
> expensive technology ever bought for elections in Kenya (and Probably
> Africa) was designed to fail before it landed in the country.****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>I would replace the sentence '...the election results show that ****
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> >>>>technology has failed them.' with the sentence****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>'...the election results show that leadership has failed them.'****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>The saving grace is that we have a sober Supreme Court and we thank
> God for them.****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>Ali Hussein****
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> >>>>CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd****
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> >>>>Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb**
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>Sent from my iPad****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Warigia Bowman <warigia at gmail.com>
> wrote:****
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>** **
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> >>>>>** **
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> >>>>>I thought you guys might enjoy this piece.****
>
> >>>>>** **
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> >>>>>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/201332913551936530**
> **
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> >>>>>8.html****
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> >>>>>** **
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> >>>>>** **
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> >>>>>Take a look, and tell me what you think. :-)****
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> >>>>>** **
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> >>>>>** **
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> >>>>>Warigia****
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