[kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again

Thu Feb 28 17:59:00 EAT 2013

Maybe the best person to respond to these queries would be Dismas Ongondi,
head of ICT at IEBC. I believe there are listers on the list who know him
personally.

Andrew
On Feb 28, 2013 5:45 PM, "Mark Mwangi" <mwangy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also wondered hat was meant by visualising  What exactly is being
> visualised if the results are correctly received  Also why is IEBC buying
> hardware now? This thing was not tested for all those
> months? Wouldn't running it from a cloud instance be better and cheaper for
> all concerned(ok maybe not for whomever is selling the new new server.)
>
> And why is there no technical language being used? No talk of latency,
> page load, database response etc. just vague terms like no visualisation.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:04 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The information to be visualized is minimal as what is being received is
>> only summaries from the polling stations and not each voters results which
>> would mean that the data could be visualized quite comfortably with a
>> spreadsheet on a 486 or lower processor so when they say that it was
>> underpowered on what platform where they running the application, a Huawei
>> ID10T "smart phone".
>>
>> This is a clear indication that all we remain is a silicon savanna where
>> there is a scarcity of trees from which one can climb to get a vantage
>> point into the future.
>>
>> (A *savanna*, or *savannah*, is a grassland<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassland>
>> ecosystem <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem> characterized by the
>> trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy_%28forest%29>does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground
>> to support an unbroken herbaceous<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbaceous>layer consisting primarily of grasses.
>> [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-1>[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-2>
>> [3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-WernerIntro-3> Some
>> classification systems[*which?<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words>
>> *] also recognize a grassland savanna from which trees are absent.[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna#cite_note-4>This article deals only with savanna under the common definition of a
>> grassy woodland with a significant woody plant component)
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Robert Yawe
>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> Kenya
>>
>> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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>> *From:* Gabe Sailepo <gabe at kentelcom.com>
>> *To:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
>> *Cc:* robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, 28 February 2013, 0:15
>> *Subject:* RE: [kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again
>>
>>  We are living in the day and age of Hardware Abstraction, Multi-core
>> CPU, Hypervisors and Virtualization of physical resources.
>> The statement “Server was under powered” does not inspire a lot of
>> confidence in our nascent IT Industry.
>> In my opinion, the physical hardware should no longer a limitation once
>> you virtualize the Compute, Network and Storage Nodes?
>> Did the engineers do any stress-tests and capacity planning? Did they
>> even scale the System?
>> It would be ironic and tragic if the Kenyan Elections failed due to some
>> ID10T errors considering that Kenya is the African Silicon Savannah.
>> “Never was so much owed by so many to so few” stolen from Churchill.
>>
>> Gabe Shompole
>>
>>
>>  *From:* kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+gabe.shompole=
>> kentelcom.com at lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *robert yawe
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:59 AM
>> *To:* Gabe Shompole
>> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>> *Subject:* [kictanet] Techies to fail Kenya again
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I am shocked that none of the people of this list felt it necessary to
>> the bring the following issues to light yet it could be a major issue if
>> not resolved immeidate
>>
>> “Sunday when we had the transmission of results, there was something that
>> didn’t work. We used a server of a lesser power than the one we thought we
>> should use. We confirmed that all results were relayed to the server but it
>> could not do visualisation,” Mr Oswago said.
>>
>>
>> http://elections.nation.co.ke/news/System-to-relay-poll-tally-queried-/-/1631868/1704724/-/5pbyj5z/-/index.html
>>
>> Shall we keep behaving like pathologists whose clients have no
>> opportunity for a second opinion?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>  Robert Yawe
>> KAY System Technologies Ltd
>> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
>> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
>> Kenya
>>  Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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