[kictanet] IEBC acts to avert Safaricom exit from poll contract

[Walubengo J]

@ Mbugua,

Safcom has the widest coverage in Kenya. I just attended today's National Broadband Launch and they had this map of Kenya that showed over 70% of Kenyan landmass without a VOICE signal let alone Internet/Data signal. So really IEBC has no choice but to stick with Safaricom if they want to send out electronic/sms results. The closes rival Airtel or Orange? are less likely to have a signal in some remote parts of Makueni...

But that is secondary, the point Safaricom was making was that IEBC was not ready to do this thing of Results Transmission. It really did not matter whether they hired Airtel, Orange,  Safaricom or all of them.  Their Backoffice operations were simply not ready for this electronic stuff.

walu.








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 From: James Mbugua <jgmbugua at gmail.com>
To: jwalu at yahoo.com 
Cc: Bob Collymore <BCollymore at safaricom.co.ke>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>; Nzioka Waita <Nwaita at safaricom.co.ke> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] IEBC acts to avert Safaricom exit from poll contract
 




Who else do they use? As much as Safaricom are the obvious choice, it is dangerous for a national body to stake its operations on one operator and to act crippled if that operator is not on board. It MUST be requirement by law, that IEBC engages at least two providers or two consortia of providers one which provides redundancy. And these things are known to every middle level manager in a middle level outfit who has ever dealt with suppliers, I don't know why it is when we get to these levels we act like we don't know.

It is just common sense that you do not put national data on one platform, period! Even when County governments are up and running, it will either be that government gets another company to support Safaricom in data transmission, or if none is forthcoming, government must set it up itself, to have an alternative.

Regards

James



On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Edith Adera <eadera at idrc.ca> wrote:

Is Safaricom saving face?
> 
> 
>From:kictanet [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.ca at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Walubengo J
>Sent: July 23, 2013 11:27 AM
>To: Edith Adera
>Cc: Bob Collymore; Nzioka Waita; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
>Subject: [kictanet] IEBC acts to avert Safaricom exit from poll contract
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>@Bob, @Waita
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>A big-up for Safaricom for putting pressure on IEBC to ensure their technical/ICT systems are in order. If we want to reform our electoral institution, I think this is the way to go - as opposed to disbanding them :-)  
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>I hope you get IEBC to use the Results Transmission System so that we can know the winner by the time we take dinner this friday evening.
> 
>walu.
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>~~~~~
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>The electoral commission has formed a technical team to negotiate with Safaricom, after the latter pulled out of a contract for live transmission of results for the Makueni by-election.
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>Leading mobile provider Safaricom announced it had pulled out of the deal with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) over confidence issues with the level of preparedness of the commission for the Makueni senatorial by-election.
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>http://www.nation.co.ke/News/IEBC-acts-to-avert-Safaricom-exit-from-poll-contract/-/1056/1922928/-/ghxg9c/-/index.html
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